Tesseract-Tax
Scan, import, and organize your tax documents — with on-device amount extraction and federal/state tax estimation. No cloud. No subscriptions.
Features
- Import tax documents from folders, ZIP files, or scan paper documents with your iPhone camera
- Auto-detect document types — W-2, 1099-INT/DIV/B/MISC/NEC/R, 1098, 1098-T, and more
- On-device PDF amount extraction with IRS box-level accuracy using spatial OCR
- Federal and state tax estimation with bracket breakdown, capital gains, AMT, NIIT, and credits
- Encrypted credential vault with biometric unlock for institution login auto-fill
- Batch web collection — visit each institution's tax portal with auto-filled credentials
- Year-over-year comparison to track changes in income and deductions
- Property tax tracking with address extraction from W-2 documents
- Export all documents as organized ZIP for your tax preparer
- Vision LLM extraction (coming soon) — SmolVLM-2B on-device for spatial document understanding
How It Works
Three steps to organized tax documents and an instant estimate.
1. Collect
Import PDFs from your Downloads folder, scan paper documents with your iPhone, or let the built-in web collector visit each institution's tax portal automatically.
2. Extract
The on-device parser reads each document, identifies IRS form types, and extracts dollar amounts mapped to the correct box numbers — no internet required.
3. Estimate
See your federal and state tax estimate instantly — with bracket breakdowns, deduction analysis, capital gains calculations, and year-over-year comparisons.
Supported Forms
Income
W-2 (wages), 1099-INT (interest), 1099-DIV (dividends), 1099-B (brokerage), 1099-NEC (freelance), 1099-MISC, 1099-R (retirement), 1099-G, 1099-SSA, 1099-OID, Consolidated 1099
Deductions
1098 (mortgage interest, property tax, insurance premiums), 1098-T (tuition & scholarships), charitable donation receipts, medical expenses
Other
Form 1040 import, 5498-SA (HSA contributions), property tax bills, and any ad-hoc PDF documents for your tax preparer
Privacy by Design
Your financial documents never leave your device. All extraction, calculation, and storage happens locally using Apple's native frameworks.
Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, keys stored in the Secure Enclave, and biometric authentication required for access. No analytics. No tracking. No cloud sync.