What are human readable documents?

What is an example of human readable document?

An example of a human-readable format is a PDF document. Although PDF is a digital media, its data representation does not require any specialized equipment or computer to interpret. Moreover, the information contained in the PDF document is usually intended toward humans, not machines.

What is a human readable and machine readable document?

Machine-readable data may be classified in two groups: human-readable data that is marked up so that it can also be read by machines (e.g. microformats, RDFa, HTML), and data file formats intended principally for processing by machines (CSV, RDF, XML, JSON).

What makes a file human readable?

First, what is human readable? In short, human readable means a human can read it and does not require computer translation. In more complex terms human readable content will be in ASCII or something similar while non-human readable data will be in binary. First lets see what we're looking at.