Japanese PDF Annotator and Transcriptionist

Help create high-quality training data that improves document AI for Japanese materials. You will turn real, publicly available PDF pages into detailed structural maps and exact Japanese transcriptions, covering challenging content such as handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, vertical text, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents may include newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets. All annotation and transcription work is completed in Japanese and is human-authored, not generated by parsing models.

• Find publicly accessible Japanese PDFs in assigned document categories that include at least one image, table, diagram, or handwritten element, and record the source.
• Identify, bound, and classify every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.
• Assign reading-order indexes and link related regions to their parent figure or table.
• Transcribe text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content, while flagging illegible material.
• Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and indicators for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review colleagues'' work end to end when assigned as an experienced annotator.

• Native-level Japanese fluency, with full command of kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and variant character forms.
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or similar document-intensive work.
• Character-level accuracy and a methodical approach to applying a consistent taxonomy across many pages.
• Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, examination papers, and handwritten forms.

• AI training-data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Japanese-language typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization.
• Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, or kanji variant handling.

• Capture, correctly bound, and correctly classify every meaningful page region.
• Reflect the actual reading order, including vertical text and multi-column layouts.
• Produce Japanese-script transcriptions that match the source character for character, rather than romaji.
• Deliver work that passes second-expert review and adds meaningful layout diversity to the document corpus.

• Remote, hourly engagement.
• Open only to contributors based in Japan, South Korea, India, the United States, Canada, or Western Europe.

33.58 per hour.

This role requires native-level Japanese fluency. All annotation and transcription tasks are performed in Japanese.