PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese

• Open and check assigned Japanese PDF pages for language, legibility, real content, and absence of personal details
• Identify and bound every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields
• Assign component types and reading-order indices
• Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
• Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
• Flag regions where the source is not legible
• Capture metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
• Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced
• Work with real published Japanese documents from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets
• Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms
• Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work
• Character-level accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
• Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
• Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets
• Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing
• Nice-to-have: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material
• Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
• Independent contractor status
• Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

• Fully remote role
• Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
• Competitive pay
• Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
• Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits
• Reasonable accommodations upon request