Bengali Transcription and Annotation Expert

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 – Bengali Type: Contract Compensation: $13/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities • Source documents: find a publicly accessible Bengali PDF in an assigned document type, containing at least one multimodal element (images, tables, diagrams, or handwriting), and record where you obtained it. • Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index. • Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier. • Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Bengali script, including handwritten content, flagging any region where the source is not legible. • Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting. • Review a colleague's work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Bengali expert, and experienced annotators take on that review. Qualifications Must-Have • Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms. • Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review. • Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect. • Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages. • Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms. Preferred • Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets. • Transcription and localization: MTPE , subtitling, bilingual QA , OCR correction or post-editing. • Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Bengali -language material. • Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Bengali 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: • For any help or support, reach out to: PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas