PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

• Open and check provided PDF-page tasks
• Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content and show no personal details
• Identify and bound every meaningful page region
• Assign component types and reading-order indexes
• Link regions to related figures or tables through parent component identifiers
• Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, furigana and handwritten content
• Flag illegible source regions
• Capture 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

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms
• 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 with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
• Japanese fluency required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
• Independent contractor status
• Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

• Fully remote role
• Flexible own schedule
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
• Opportunity to work on frontier AI training projects
• Collaboration with leading researchers
• Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral (limits apply)
• Reasonable accommodations upon request