Jed and Steven,

Sorry about that.
Did you try the zoom feature at the bottom of the web page?

I do have a higher resolution images for each page. There are a total
of 12 images and the average size is about 0.5 MB.
If you want I could send them privately.


Harry



----- Original Message ----
> From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 2:00:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: "Energy and the Value Society"
> 
> 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
> 
> 


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