---
id: KB-DI-005
url: https://app.codecontract.io/help/documents-and-ai/correcting-a-misread-value
idioma: en
categoria: documentos-ia
subcategoria: lectura
audiencia: usuario
nivel: intermedio
actualizado: 2026-08-13
tambienEn: [es]
relacionados: [KB-DI-004, KB-TZ-001]
citadoPor: [KB-DI-004, KB-DI-006, KB-DI-016, KB-MA-020, KB-GL-010, KB-CF-002]
---

# Correcting a misread value

_How to correct it, what happens to the original, and why it is worth doing._

**Responde a:** change a value extracted from a document · correct the read expiry date · edit a document's data · who changed this value

Correcting a value takes five seconds and does two things: it makes the value right now, and it may make the next similar document read better.

## How to do it

1. **Open the document.**
2. **Click the misread value.**
3. **Type the correct one.**

## What happens to the previous value

**En corto**

- The original document is never touched. You correct the reading, not the paper.
- The old value, the new one, who changed it and when are all kept.
- If the value drove an alert — an expiry, say — it is recalculated automatically.

> [!NOTE]
> Keeping the old value is not bureaucracy: if anyone asks why the system said something different in March, the answer is right there.

> [!WARNING]
> Correcting a value does not correct the document. If the paper itself is wrong — a certificate with the wrong tax ID — you need a new one, not a tidied-up field.

**Can I correct several at once?**

Yes, in the batch review view.

**Can I go back to the original value?**

Yes, what the system read is kept.

**Does it count as a new version?**

The value does; the document does not, because it has not changed.

## Ejemplos

**An insurance policy is read as expiring in 2027 when the paper says 2026.**

- Corrects the date

→ The renewal alert repositions itself, and the gap is not discovered during an inspection.

**A figure is corrected and people think the document changes.**

- Checks the document is unchanged

→ The evidence stays intact.

**It is corrected and nobody knows it changed.**

- Checks the figure's history

→ The correction has an author and a date.

**The same error repeats across many documents.**

- Checks whether the format is the cause

→ The cause is fixed rather than each case.

**A figure that feeds a warning is corrected.**

- Checks the warning recalculates

→ The warning becomes true again.

**It is corrected without looking at the original image.**

- Compares with the document before saving

→ The correction is right.