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

mercor

  • Full Time
  • Remote
  • ['Entry-level']

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Job description

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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