Machine-readable

Be writings, ID cards, license plate, or the like as a machine-readable. referred if they have been designed specially to be readable for machines, rather than for people.

This can not happen noticeable features such as magnetic stripe through additional, for the people, or indeed recognizable, but not understandable for humans features such as bar codes or encryption in seemingly random sequences of letters and numbers, whereby the machine recognition (using check digits etc. ) may be more reliable. Through this incomprehensibility but also concerns about data security regulations are loud.

All interpretable by software and / or hardware data are machine-readable.