It helps control labor costs by reducing over-payments, which are often caused by transcription error, interpretation error and intentional error.

This kind of check will highlight transcription errors where two or more digits have been transposed or put in the wrong order.

This resulted in a few transcription errors, about which the scribe had to later inquire.

Single errors and adjacent transpositions are the two most frequently appearing types of transcription errors.

Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, such as misreads of paper ballots.