machine-readable
adjective
ma·chine-read·a·ble
mə-ˈshēn-ˈrē-də-bəl 
: directly usable by a computer
machine-readable text
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The International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets the standards for machine-readable passports, provides three options: female, male or X (for unspecified).
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
This contrast illustrates the strategic value of prompt engineering: converting vague, high-level user intent into structured, context-rich machine-readable instructions that generate consistent and meaningful responses.
—Shikher Goel, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Unless businesses convert these types of documents into machine-readable formats, unethical practices, like forging signatures on financial documents, will accelerate.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
These sources have earned trust at scale and structure their content in machine-readable ways.
—Jeffrey Herzog, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
The app uses optical character recognition to convert handwriting into machine-readable text.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
Each entry is both human-verifiable and machine-readable, promoting trust and transparency.
—Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may instruct governments that have outstanding municipal bonds to start using this taxonomy to produce machine-readable audits as early as 2027.
—Marc Joffe, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2025
Companies can either work with existing vendors or develop custom AI agents to make operational data machine-readable.
—Sandeep Shilawat, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
This contrast illustrates the strategic value of prompt engineering: converting vague, high-level user intent into structured, context-rich machine-readable instructions that generate consistent and meaningful responses.
—Shikher Goel, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Unless businesses convert these types of documents into machine-readable formats, unethical practices, like forging signatures on financial documents, will accelerate.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
These sources have earned trust at scale and structure their content in machine-readable ways.
—Jeffrey Herzog, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
The app uses optical character recognition to convert handwriting into machine-readable text.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
Each entry is both human-verifiable and machine-readable, promoting trust and transparency.
—Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may instruct governments that have outstanding municipal bonds to start using this taxonomy to produce machine-readable audits as early as 2027.
—Marc Joffe, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2025
Companies can either work with existing vendors or develop custom AI agents to make operational data machine-readable.
—Sandeep Shilawat, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Machine-readable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/machine-readable. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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