Odia Document Annotation Specialist
Pubblicato il 24-10-2026 - Mercor in Bologna
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.