Odia Document Annotation Specialist

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. Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete) Upload resume AI interview based on your resume Submit form Resources & Support For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.