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The term machine-readable (or computer-readable) refers to information encoded in a form which can be, read (for example, scanned/sensed) by a machine/computer and interpreted by the machine's hardware and/or software. Theoretically, anything that can be read, can be read by machines, but not necessarily comprehended by machines.
Common machine-readable data storage and data transmission technologies include processing waveforms, optical character recognition (OCR) and barcodes. Any information retrievable by any form of energy can be machine-readable. Examples include:

Acoustics
Chemical
- Photochemical
Electrical
- Semiconductor used in volatile RAM microchips
- Floating-gate transistor used in non-volatile memory cards
- Radio transmission
Magnetic storage
Mechanical
- Pins and holes
  - Punch card
  - Paper tape
    - Music roll
  - Music box cylinder or disk
- Grooves (See also Audio Data)
  - Phonograph cylinder
  - Gramophone record
  - DictaBelt (groove on plastic belt)
  - Capacitance Electronic Disc
- Optics
  - Optical storage
- Thermodynamic

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