What is machine-readable vs human readable?

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

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 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 is considered human-readable?

Human readable is a term for data that can be interpreted by people. In theory, a human can understand anything that a machine can understand. For example, a human could understand machine code that is used by computers to execute software.

What is machine readability?

Machine readable data is data structured in a format that can be understood and processed by a computer. Some file formats, such as a PDF or Word documents, are human readable and easier to read and edit.