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Originally Posted by murraypaul
There is already a print version to check against, the one they scanned from.
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And why do you assume that the proofer gets the print version??? More proofing is done by freelancers than in-house talent these days... and guess what, they get sent files by email - the OCR'd files, not necessarily the scans as well. Now this method obviously has flaws in its methodology but we again come down to costings. You can put the book by the computer and do a few pages when you feel like it and have the time... professionals don't work like that and they don't get paid to compare paper/jpgs to text... they get paid to proof the text they're given... proofing ISN'T a comparison task, that's a new job altogether and should probably have a new name to distinguish it from proofreading...