PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

• Open and check assigned PDF pages for Japanese 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 page metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
• Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
• Produce human-authored training data for document AI models using real published Japanese documents

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, katakana, 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 working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
• Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
• Must be able to reproduce Japanese text in the original script rather than romaji
• Nice to have experience with annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
• Independent contractor engagement
• Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

• Fully remote role
• Flexible own schedule
• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
• Competitive pay
• Reasonable accommodations upon request
• Referral opportunity earning up to $140 per successful referral (referral limits apply)