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CNA
16-07-2025
- Business
- CNA
Updated digital guide to help Singapore's F&B sector tackle manpower challenges
Restaurants can now tap an updated digital guide to tackle manpower challenges. Solutions range from simple tasks like going paperless, to advanced systems that can fully run a store. rants and tools are also in place to help them assess their needs and identify cost-effective solutions. Richa Mathew reports.
Forbes
07-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Document Scanning Made Easy
Here is a fantastic new document scanner Sitting in my office some 30 years ago, I noticed the paperwork piling up across the desk. They were mostly articles about whatever topics I had been writing about. Not wanting to keep those physical documents – that was going to take up way too much space – I still wanted to reference them. And then I had an epiphany.I took a few pages over to the office fax machine, and faxed them to myself via email. With hope, I checked my email and there was an electronic version of the pages. I saved them in my email. Then I went back and faxed the rest of the articles. By the end of the afternoon, I had digitized all of the articles and thrown out the physical copies. Have been hooked on scanning ever course, scanning is incredibly simple and fast to do now. While I have a desktop scanner that connects via Bluetooth to my Chromebook or phone, I mostly just use my phone and the Google Drive app's built-in scanner to digitize documents these days. It's ultra-fast and super easy. Once I scan what I need, I download it to a thumb drive and shred the original. That way, the document is safely kept offline where no one but me can access it. I also back up that drive every few weeks. And I scan literally every document I need – bills, receipts, forms, articles, bank statements, whatever. Everything is organized in a way that makes sense to me, so I can access files much faster than anyone with a manual paper filing cabinet. Yeah, I'm obsessed. Have even thought about starting a document scanning business for I'm always looking at new scanners that hit the market. One such model, the new ScanSnap ix2500, recently debuted and is now sitting on my desk. Because I don't own a Windows or Mac machine, I've connected it by WiFi to both an iPhone and an Android model for testing. It's really fast to set up. And although its features are limited on the ScanSnap Home phone app, it does work flawlessly so far in my flagship scanner is armed with an advanced imaging chip that was originally developed for business-style document scanners to handle more intensive workloads and scanning tasks. It also includes a 5-inch responsive and intuitive touch screen that lets users program custom settings and save specific cloud-based destinations. And you can set up profiles to send scans to different places for various users. There's also a physical scan button, in case you don't want to commandeer the process from your can do full two-sided scanning at 45 pages per minute and hold up to 100 sheets of paper at a time. Thanks to stable paper feeding technology, the process has been nothing but smooth so far. Skew detection can stop feed operation to prevent damage if any sheets are fed incorrectly. While the phone apps are rather simple and basic, there are more features offered on the PC version. Plus the machine takes up a small footprint. It sells for $460 and is available in white or black.
The Verge
26-05-2025
- The Verge
How to scan documents using your iPhone
Converting paper documents into digital formats means you've got backups of your paperwork should you ever need them. It can also help you clear out a substantial amount of clutter from your home or office — perhaps a whole filing cabinet's worth. It's now easier than ever to scan documents using today's phones — a large flatbed scanner is no longer needed as it was in the past. Receipts, business cards, bills, and any other kind of printed material can be stored digitally. If you've got an iPhone, you can do this straight from the built-in Notes or Files apps. If those don't quite give you the features you need, there are third-party alternatives that will do the job as well. Scan documents with Notes or Files The process of scanning a document is similar in both Notes and Files. To get started in Notes, open or create a note, then tap the paperclip icon at the bottom, then Scan Documents. In Files, tap the three dots (top right), then Scan Documents. This gets you into the scanning interface. By default, you'll be in auto mode — frame the document in the camera viewfinder, and when it's lined up, a picture is automatically taken. Line up the next page, and after a moment, another capture is made. Tap Auto (top right) to switch to manual mode, which lets you take each snap using the shutter button manually. The Auto button changes to read Manual, and you can tap it again to switch back to automatic mode. You'll see a couple of icons at the top. The lightning bolt lets you control the flash, while the three circles lets you switch between Color, Grayscale, Black & White, and Photo for the scanning mode. When all the documents and pages have been captured, tap Save. In Notes, the pages you've scanned are then added to the current note, and in Files the pages are saved together as a PDF file (you may be asked where you want to save your file). Scanning documents from a Mac Apple's Continuity suite of features includes a useful little trick that lets you scan documents from your Mac using an iPhone. As with other Continuity features, you must be signed in to the same Apple account on both devices for this to work, and both devices need to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on. This works in Finder, Mail, Messages, Notes, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and TextEdit on macOS. There are three options, depending on the app you're in: Ctrl+click where you want the scan to show, then choose Import from iPhone or iPad > Scan Documents. From the File menu, choose Import from iPhone or iPad > Scan Documents. From the Insert menu, choose Import from iPhone or iPad > Scan Documents. All three methods will launch the document scanner on your iPhone — at which point you're back to the interface we covered in the previous section. When you tap Save on your iPhone, the documents show up in your Mac app. Third-party scanning apps The process in iOS and macOS is very straightforward, but plenty of other apps do document scanning too, if you need them. A couple that I use regularly are Google Drive and Dropbox, so you might find they suit you better if those apps are where you tend to keep your digital archives. With Google Drive, tap the scan document icon in the lower right corner (it looks like a page with a frame around it). This takes you to a camera interface that matches the one you get in Notes and Files, but when you tap Save, you get to choose where in your Google Drive you want the scanned PDF uploaded to. You get a few more options with Dropbox: Tap the blue + (plus) button at the bottom, then Scan files. There's the Auto and Manual toggle switch again, but as soon as a page is captured, you get taken to a new screen where you can edit the borders of the scan or rotate it, and add further pages. When that's sorted, you're able to choose where in your Dropbox you want the scanned PDF to be saved, and how much compression to apply.
Travel Weekly
07-05-2025
- Business
- Travel Weekly
Carnival to launch paperless solution for shore excursions
Entry to Carnival Cruise Line excursions will soon be paperless. The line announced Wednesday that Carnival's Hub app will offer digital confirmation prior to excursion check-in and that guests' Sail & Sign cards will then be all they need to show upon arrival. The rollout of the new system will begin with Bahamian private destination Celebration Key when it opens July 19 and will be expanded to other destinations. That includes Alaska and Europe by summer 2026, Carnival said. In addition to check-in confirmation, the app will include information about excursion logistics such as meeting times and locations. Guests will be able to make last-minute bookings if space is available. The new system launched in Australia earlier this year and is currently being piloted in the Bahamas and Caribbean.
