Malayalam Annotation & Transcription Specialist

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.
- 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.

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📌 Malayalam Data Annotation & Transcription Specialist (Madrid)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Madrid