PT Page Proofreading Time

Estimating Proofreading Time per Page (Portuguese)

Proofreading (revisão) throughput gets measured in pages per hour. For light proofreading, where you're catching typos, accents and basic grammar, a professional moves through 8 to 15 pages per hour. Deep editing is slower, somewhere around 4 to 8 pages per hour, because now you're also weighing style, cohesion, fact-checking and citation verification. The estimate itself is plain arithmetic: time = pages ÷ pages_per_hour. A standard page (lauda) here means 1,400–2,100 characters with spaces, or roughly 250–300 words.

In Brazil, reference rates come from ABRATES (Associação Brasileira de Tradutores e Intérpretes) and SINTRA. For proofreading, SINTRA points to R$ 30 to R$ 80 per page, varying with how deep the work goes and how fast it's due. Academic jobs add another layer: references have to line up with ABNT NBR 6023 (the Brazilian standard for bibliographic citations), and journals may want Vancouver, APA or Chicago instead. Spellcheckers help here, whether that's CompuLeitor, FLiP or the ones baked into Word and LibreOffice, but they don't stand in for a human reading.

Applications

Freelancers reach for this when quoting dissertations, theses, scientific articles, e-books or corporate documents. Publishers hang their copyediting and proofreading milestones off expected throughput, while agencies lean on it to split batches evenly across revisers. Students and authors run the numbers to gauge what a professional review will cost before they hand anything over. Editors do the same to argue for sane deadlines on novel-length manuscripts, often 200–400 pages, where one full pass can eat 30–80 hours.

FAQ

What is the difference between light and deep proofreading? Light proofreading (revisão simples) stays on the surface: typos, accents, basic grammar, punctuation. Deep editing (revisão profunda or copidesque) goes further into style, cohesion, redundancy, fact-checking and suggestions about how the text is put together.

How is a proofreading page (lauda) defined? Most people use 1,400 to 2,100 characters with spaces, or 250–300 words. The typical academic lauda under ABNT works out to 30 lines × 70 characters ≈ 2,100 characters.

Do automated tools replace a human proofreader? No. FLiP, LanguageTool and CompuLeitor are good at surface errors, but contextual problems, inconsistent style and the finer points of ABNT NBR 6023 reference formatting still need someone to make the call.