Meaning & use
unscannable
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Not able to be scanned, whether by a machine reading a code or image, or by a person reading text quickly.
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The crumpled receipt was unscannable, so the cashier had to enter the barcode manually.
Dense blocks of unbroken text make a webpage unscannable for readers skimming for key points.
A note on using this word
Used in both a technical sense (barcodes, documents) and a design sense (text layout for quick reading).
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