>From Jed: > I tried some methods of OCRing this document, but the text is too small. The > errors make the results unreadable. > > There is no point to uploading this kind of document. It is a darn shame.
> http://www.scribd.com/full/46090006?access_key=key-gsc2g9c2bkbszd52bum If the physical source cannot be rescanned at a higher resolution, it is still conceivable that the scanned images currently loaded out at scribd.com could be manually transcribed, and with a very high degree of accuracy. The problem is that a human would have to "volunteer" to perform the actual translation. Obviously, the volunteer would have to display individual pages on their monitor screen and zoom into each page - up to the point that the heavily pixelated words still remain more-or-less intelligible, particularly when taken into context with what precedes and what follows it. I actually read about three or four pages into the document myself. I was pretty sure I was reading each sentence accurately. Actually, it wasn't all that difficult to guess at what the individual words were. In fact, I wanted to read more because the writer obviously knew a thing or two. Unfortunately, I got lazy. Too much effort. I simply wanted to read the document and not have to constantly guess at the meaning of certain words. Bummer. Nevertheless, I bring this suggestion to the awareness of the Vort Collective because I suspect there may be an individual or two who may "rise to the challenge!" Some of us are better at tackling such tasks than others. In which case you can be assured that, as always, your ultimate reward will be a "virtual" hand-shake and a pat on the back. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
