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Originally Posted by MoSo
When I worked for a newspaper and we published legal notices in Spanish - a language none of us spoke natively - we proofread them against the original copy end-to-front, word by word. You'd have to do the same there.
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Yes, and I suspect that's why books here on MR are so reliable. They have people who, though perhaps not going "word by word", are working to upload texts that they love and therefore don't mind, or even enjoy, partly or fully re-reading.
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I occasionally proofread for Distributed Proofreaders, and I have to say that most of the newly scanned things have very, very few OCR/scanner errors.
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Another suspicion...because most of the public domain books I have been looking for are well-known classics, perhaps they were some of the earlier-scanned rather than "newly scanned". I have found, on occasion, some public domain ebooks where it is fairly obvious that no subsequent checking was done.
Finnegans Wake would probably require the expertise from your first paragraph's experience.
Cheers,
Marc