Malayalam Annotation & Transcription 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 – Malayalam Type: Contract Compensation: $13/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities • Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources. • Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices. • Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier. • Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script , flagging illegible regions. • Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting. • Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end. Qualifications Must-Have • Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script. • Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, 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, or bilingual evaluation. • Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction. • Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading. • Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , 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