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 D'Angelo , 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 colleague's 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 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume

- AI interview based on your resume

- Submit form

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