What is a human readable and machine readable document?

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The difference between human readable and machine readable is that human readable refers to any document that needs to be read by humans whereas machine readable refers to any document that has to be printed ( i.e output) by a computer system, filled out and then used as input into the computer system.

What is the difference between human-readable and machine-readable documents?

The Human Readable formats have the advantage of being easily understood by a person reading them. Machine readable formats are easier/faster for a machine to encode/decode. There are formats which attempt to be a little of both. XML, JSon, CSV are examples of these.

What is a human-readable document?

A human-readable medium or human-readable format is any encoding of data or information that can be naturally read by humans.

What is the meaning of machine readable document?

(xiii) Machine-readable file means a digital representation of data or information in a file that can be imported or read by a computer system for further processing without human intervention, while ensuring no semantic meaning is lost.

What is an example of a machine readable document?

Examples of machine-readable media include magnetic media such as magnetic disks, cards, tapes, and drums, punched cards and paper tapes, optical discs, barcodes and magnetic ink characters.

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