PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

• Open and check provided Japanese PDF-page tasks
• Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show no 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 indexes
• Link regions to their parent figures or tables
• Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
• Flag illegible source regions
• Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting
• Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
• Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI models

• 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
• Comfortable working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
• Fluent language skills required: Japanese
• Must be able to reproduce Japanese text in the original script rather than romaji
• Independent contractor status
• H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

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