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{{short description|Medium capable of storing data in a format readable by a mechanical devicemachine}}

{{See also|Machine-readable data}}

[[Image:EAN-13-ISBN-13.svg|thumb|ISBN represented as [[European Article Number|EAN-13 bar code]] showing both machine-readable bars and human-readable digits]]

In [[communication]]s and [[computing]] a '''machine-readable medium''', or '''computer-readable medium''', is a [[recording medium|medium]] capable of storing [[Data (computing)|data]] in a format easily readable by a digital computer or mechanical device (rather than [[human readable]]).

Examples of machine-readable media include magnetic media such as [[Disk storage|magnetic disk]]s, cards, [[magnetic tape|tapes]], and [[magnetic drum|drums]], [[punched card]]s and [[paper tape]]s, [[optical disc]]s, [[barcode]]s and [[Magnetic Ink Character Recognition|magnetic ink characters]].