Bengali Document Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr
mercor
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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 – 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
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