Bengali Transcription and Annotation Expert

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 DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts Bengali
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Bengali PDF in an assigned document type containing at least one multimodal element (images tables diagrams or handwriting) and record where you obtained it.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title section heading paragraph list table figure diagram caption formula question answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Bengali script including handwritten content flagging any region where the source is not legible.
• Capture page metadata: language document type source page dimensions and flags for tables formulas and handwriting.
• Review a colleagues work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Bengali expert and experienced annotators take on that review.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script its diacritics and its conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation transcription translation localization subtitling proofreading journalism or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers exam papers handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Regional-language AI data: annotation labeling grading or bilingual evaluation for training datasets.
• Transcription and localization: MTPE subtitling bilingual QA OCR correction or post-editing.
• Document production: typesetting copy-editing proofreading or digitization of Bengali-language material.
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization Bengali input methods numeral-form and character-form accuracy.

Application Process (Takes 2030 mins to complete)

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