Machine-readable

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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.

A barcode of ISBN showing both machine readable & Human readable data

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

[edit] See also

• Machine-readable medium
• Human-readable
• MARC standards

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