Oh my ex and some acquaintances were bitching about it in 1999.

I recall a guy with good transcription skills starting a long thread on… must have been slashdot? About how it was faster for him to transcribe the numbers again than to verify the OCR was correct, but he couldn’t tell his boss that and what should he do?

There’s also a famous case where the compression algorithm in a copy/fax machine had a bug in a predefined dictionary that resulted in changing digits to other digits when making copies or faxes. Because they weren’t just compressing, they were trying to use a specialized OCR to do aggressive compression. I believe it was spitting out perfectly formed zeroes where another digit was in the original. Yikes.