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In [[telecommunication]]s and [[computing]] a '''machine-readable medium''' ('''automated data medium''') is a [[Recording medium|medium]] capable of storing [[Data (computing)|data]] in a format readable by a mechanical device (rather than by a human).

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 disk]]s, [[barcode]]s and [[Magnetic Ink Character Recognition|magnetic ink characters]].potato

[[Image:EAN-13-ISBN-13.svg|thumb|220px|ISBN represented as [[European Article Number|EAN-13 bar code]] showing both machine-readable bars and human-readable digits]]