ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Machine-Readable Documents

Machine-readable documents are kinds of documents that can be read and understood by computers. They are written in a special kind of language so that the computer can understand what is written in the document and take instructions from it. This language is called code. For example, if you have a document that lists instructions on how to make a pizza, a computer can read the instructions using code so that it knows what to do.