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Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote

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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

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PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.

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