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# Japanese PDF Annotation Specialist

- **Company:** Mercor
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany (Remote available)
- **Salary:** €70,720.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Encodings, Document Type Definition, Typesetting
- **Published:** September 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5873985134

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
 * Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
 * Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
 * Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
 * Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Preferred

 * Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
 * Skills in transcription and localization, including MTPE, subtitling, and OCR correction.
 * Document production experience such as typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
 * Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.

## Description

* Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
 * Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
 * Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
 * Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content.
 * Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
 * Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.


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