machine readable
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Suitable for feeding directly into a computer: Describes data or text that is in a format that a computer can process and interpret directly without human intervention for conversion.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The census data was converted into a machine-readable format for analysis.
- A PDF is not inherently machine-readable; the text must be extracted and structured for software to process it.
- Governments are increasingly publishing laws and regulations as machine-readable documents to improve transparency and accessibility.
Advanced Usage
- "Machine-readable data": Data encoded in a way that software applications can easily use (e.g., CSV, JSON, XML files).
- Open data initiatives require public information to be released as machine-readable data.
- "Machine-readable zone (MRZ)": A specific area on passports and identity documents containing text encoded in a format readable by optical character recognition (OCR) scanners.
- The border control officer scanned the machine-readable zone at the bottom of the passport.
Variants and Related Words
- Machine-readable medium (n): A physical object, like a magnetic tape or barcode, on which machine-readable data is stored.
- The archive stores historical records on a machine-readable medium for long-term preservation.
- Human-readable (adj): Presented in a form that is easy for people to read and understand, often contrasted with machine-readable formats.
- The configuration file has both a human-readable comment section and a machine-readable data section.
Synonyms
- Computer-processable: Capable of being processed by a computer.
- Digitally encoded: Converted into a digital format that machines can interpret.
Related Phrases
- To make something machine-readable: The process of converting information into a format suitable for computer input.
- The library's project aims to make its entire catalog machine-readable.
Adjective
- suitable for feeding directly into a computer