Malayalam 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 , 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 Resources & Support For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: For any help or support, reach out to: PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity. Originally posted on Himalayas