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I suspect it's more expensive to make it not machine-readable, considering that it likely starts out in a computer, and if it is not stored that way, it become

I suspect it's more expensive to make it not machine-readable, considering that it likely starts out in a computer, and if it is not stored that way, it become essentially inaccessible even to the people who stored it.

mLuby 8y ago
I would guess it starts out in excel!
maccio92 8y ago
My hope is that machine-readable means an actual data format, rather than a scanned PDF or something like that.