Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$13 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $13 CAD / hour
- Workplace
- Remote
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Malayalam
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
- Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
- Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
- Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script, flagging illegible regions.
- Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
- Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, or regional-language data review.
- Exact character-level accuracy.
- Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
- Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.
Preferred
- Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction.
- Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
- Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Malayalam document expert at Mercor will source public Malayalam PDFs, mark up each page's regions and reading order, and transcribe the text exactly. The role also includes reviewing a colleague's annotation work.
Requirements
Mercor needs a native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script and experience in annotation, transcription, translation or regional-language data review. Exact character-level accuracy and comfort with unfamiliar layouts are required.
Skills
- Malayalam script
- Transcription
- Document annotation
- Layout analysis
- Reading-order annotation
- Taxonomy application
- Data labeling
- Proofreading
- Copy editing
- OCR correction
- Unicode normalization
- Localization
- Quality review
- Source documentation
Categories
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
- Education
Keywords
- Malayalam
- transcription
- annotation
- PDF annotation
- data labeling
- AI data annotation
- OCR correction
- proofreading
- copy editing
- localization
- MTPE
- Unicode normalization
- document layout
- bilingual evaluation
- remote contract
- AI training data
Languages
- English