This is not a new problem and can sometimes have disastrous results. 10 years or so ago a variation of this made headlines all over as certain Xerox Workcentre

This is not a new problem and can sometimes have disastrous results. 10 years or so ago a variation of this made headlines all over as certain Xerox Workcentres were transposing numbers during scans, due to a compression algorithm that was sometimes matching a different number than the one actually scanned. https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/ https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...