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Odia Document Annotation Specialist
@ Mercor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mercor is hiring an Odia Document Annotation Specialist on a remote contract at $13 per hour. The work involves sourcing public Odia PDFs, annotating page structure and reading order, and transcribing Odia text exactly, including handwriting. Candidates must be native Odia speakers with exact character-level accuracy.
Pay:
$13 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Find public Odia PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources
- Annotate page regions with component types and reading-order indexes
- Link regions to parent components such as figures or tables
- Transcribe Odia text exactly, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions
- Review a colleague's end-to-end annotation work
Requirements summary:
- Native Odia speaker with full command of the script
- Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization or proofreading
- Exact character-level accuracy
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across pages
- Comfort with multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms
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Job details
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Mercor
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We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
Full company description
Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
- LinkedIn followers
- 654,507
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 5,250
- Reported office locations
- San Francisco, California 94105, US
- Business categories
- Employment
- Software
- Recruiting
- Data Collection and Labeling
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Machine Learning
- Other recorded names
- Mercor
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- Yes
- Reported total investment
- 483,600,000
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Mercor is defining the future of work. We connect human expertise with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Development |
| Company size | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2023 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,626 |
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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 – Odia
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
- Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
- Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
- Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script, including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
- Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
- Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, 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, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
- Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
- Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Odia 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: [email protected]
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
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