information that can be viewed on a computer screen rather than that which is printed on paper
The soft copy is the picture on the monitor.
Examples of 'soft copy' in a sentence
soft copy
The total kappa value was 0.553 for readings on the negatoscope (hard-copy readings), and 0.615 on the monitor (soft-copy readings).
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