machine-readable text

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   electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats

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Questions about machine-readable text

What does machine-readable text mean?

machine-readable text means "electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats".

Is machine-readable text a common word?

machine-readable text is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.