Machine-readable

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. Theoretically, anything that can be read, can be read by machines, but not necessarily comprehended by machines.

Common machine-readable data storage and data transmission technologies include processing waveforms, optical character recognition (OCR) and barcodes. Any information retrievable by any form of energy can be machine-readable. Examples include:

*Acoustics
*Chemical
**Photochemical
*Electrical
**Semiconductor used in volatile RAM microchips
**Floating-gate transistor used in non-volatile memory cards
**Radio transmission
*Magnetic storage
*Mechanical
**Pins and holes
*** Punch card
*** Paper tape
****Music roll
*** Music box cylinder or disk
**Grooves "(See also Audio Data)"
*** Phonograph cylinder
*** Gramophone record
*** DictaBelt (groove on plastic belt)
*** Capacitance Electronic Disc
*Optics
**Optical storage
*Thermodynamic

ee also

* Machine-readable medium
* Human-readable
* MARC standards
* MRZ


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