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