Machine-readable medium and data

ISBN, a unique numeric book identifier, represented as an EAN-13 bar code. Showing both machine-readable bars, and human-readable digits.

In communications and computing, a machine-readable medium (or computer-readable medium) is a medium capable of storing data in a format easily readable by a digital computer or a sensor. It contrasts with human-readable medium and data.

The result is called machine-readable data or computer-readable data, and the data itself can be described as having machine-readability.

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