The word 'scrivener' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who copies documents or transcripts by hand. For example, "The scrivener was paid to copy the entire document by hand."
The First Folio version of 1623 is from a transcript by Ralph Crane (scrivener of the King's Men) of an authorial manuscript.
Banished and disinherited, Milton's father established in London a business as a scrivener, preparing documents for legal transactions.
The Tempest, drama in five acts by William Shakespeare, first written and performed about 1611 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an edited transcript, by Ralph Crane (scrivener of the King's Men), of the author's papers after they had been annotated for production.
His contributions to Putnam's Monthly Magazine—"Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853), "The Encantadas" (1854), and "Benito Cereno" (1855)—reflected the despair and the contempt for human hypocrisy and materialism that possessed him increasingly.
The narrator, a successful Wall Street lawyer, hires a scrivener named Bartleby to copy legal documents.
Glancing up, I came vis-à-vis with the corpulent scrivener slash director whom I dimly recognized as Hugh Forcemeat, a weaver of thirty-five-millimetre hallucinations that our studio had taken a flyer with several years ago, when we hired him to punch up "Psychotic Zombies of the Moon," our sequel to "Buddenbrooks".
Mr. Farrar, the first among equals in New Multitudes, has also worked recently with the words of another American wanderer, Jack Kerouac; a few years ago he made an album of songs with lyrics adapted from the novel "Big Sur," working in collaboration with the indie-rock warbler-scrivener Ben Gibbard.
His Bartleby is a deeply anti-social scrivener an office copyist in the pre-photocopier age who, when asked to do anything, politely declines, saying he "would prefer not to".Similarly, Mr Vila-Matas's narrator, Marcelo, is a reclusive office drudge.
He added: "Anthony Scrivener QC turned to me and said he was extremely worried about it.
He tried to get me to give him permission to get him [Scrivener] off the case [but] I didn't give him permission".
His lawyer read a transcript from a pre-trial hearing in November 1992 when the conspiracy allegations, which were later dropped, were first put to Nadir, his lawyer Anthony Scrivener QC, and Justice Tucker – who were both implicated.
