Machine-readable

The term machine-readable (or, computer-readable) refers to information encoded in a form which can be read (i.e., scanned/sensed) by a machine/computer and interpreted by the machine's hardware and/or software.

Machine-readable technologies include optical character recognition (OCR) and barcodes.

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See also: Machine-readable, Barcode, Computer, Encode, Hardware, Machine, Optical character recognition, Software