1. A computer implemented method comprising: acquiring, by an input module of a reader device, a machine readable image that is graphically transformed such that data represented by the machine readable image is inaccessible; graphically reconfiguring, by a configuration module of the reader device, the transformed machine readable image to a form that renders the data accessible by the reader device; and decoding, by a read module of the reader device, the reconfigured machine readable image to retrieve the data.