Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

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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