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mercorMalayalam Document 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…
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Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr at mercor is a full-time role. Work arrangement: Remote. Location: Not specified. No salary is shown in this listing. It was posted on Sep 18, 2026. This listing is paused and not taking applications at the moment.
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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 – 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
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