The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

softcopy
 /soft'kop?ee/, n.

    [by analogy with hardcopy] A machine-readable form of corresponding
    hardcopy. See bits.


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

softcopy

   /soft'kop-ee/ (by analogy with "hardcopy") A machine-readable
   ("machinable") form of corresponding hardcopy.

   [Jargon File]

   (1994-11-04)