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Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor · Spain · back to the listing

HR standards

79/100

solid

Title ↔ description

57/100

needs work

Reads as

Unclear

no confident match

What the listing never says

  • 20 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

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

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 4 points (from 83 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.