Tesseract-Tax™
Smart Tax Document Organizer
Free · In‑App Purchases
Generates IRS Form 1040 & Form 4868 for paper-mailing from your imports.. India ITR-2 support. Claude, GPT, Gemma4 support
Tesseract-Tax™ — Intelligent tax document collection for 8 countries.
Collect, scan, and organize all your tax documents in one place. Auto-detect document types, extract key amounts, estimate your taxes, and export everything for your tax preparer.
SUPPORTED COUNTRIES
United States, India, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy
SMART DOCUMENT DETECTION
- Auto-detects W-2, 1099-INT/DIV/B/R/NEC/MISC/SA, 1098, Form 8889 (US)
- Form 16, Form 16A, Form 26AS, ITR-V, Section 143(1) Intimation (India)
- P60, P45, SA100 Self Assessment (UK)
- Lohnsteuerbescheinigung, Certificazione Unica, Déclaration 2042, and more (EU)
- Auto-detects country from PDF content
COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE
- Open institution tax pages in the built-in browser
- Scan paper documents with your iPhone camera
- Import PDFs, folders, or ZIP archives
- Batch collection with auto-fill from the secure Vault
TAX ESTIMATION
- Country-specific brackets, deductions, and credits
- India Old & New regime with 80C/80D/80G deductions
- UK Income Tax + National Insurance
- Federal + state estimation (US)
EXPORT
- ZIP archive organized by institution
- Merged PDF with table of contents
- CSV summary of extracted amounts
SECURITY
- AES-GCM encrypted credential vault
- All processing on-device — documents never leave your device
- Biometric unlock
Ratings & Reviews
OFFICIAL IRS PAPER-MAILING PDFs (US)
• Form 1040 — auto-filled from your W-2/1099/1098 imports. Print, sign, mail.
• Form 4868 (extension) auto-filled.
• Supplemental schedules (1, 2, 3, A, B, D, Form 8949, 1040-V) bundled and progressively wired.
• One-time IAP unlocks both PDFs for life. Restored across your Apple ID devices. Tax Estimate, document review, and the print-summary worksheet remain free.
LIVE-VERIFIED MAILING ADDRESSES
• Correct IRS service center based on your state and whether you owe a balance.
• Verified live against irs.gov every time. Badge: Verified | IRS differs | Could not verify
INDIA — ITR-2 + YEAR-OVER-YEAR
• Read previously filed ITR-2 PDFs and extract aggregate totals (Gross Total Income, Net Tax, TDS, Refund).
• Year-over-Year comparison card on Tax Estimate view: last year vs. current year, with delta %.
• Form 16 / 16A / 26AS / Bank Interest Certificate — per-form extractors using IT Department spec language. Works across HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Axis, and others.
EXTRACTION — PER-FORM ARCHITECTURE
• One file per tax form (W-2, 1099-INT/DIV/B/DA/R/NEC/MISC, 1098, 1098-T, 1099-OID/G/SSA/SA). Each form's tolerances tuned independently.
• W-2 Box 12 (code, value) pair extraction: D=401k, DD=health, W=HSA, etc.
• On-device VLM arbiter (Gemma 4) re-verifies after import.
TAX CALCULATOR — AUDIT FIXES
• 1099, 1098 calculation fixes
• Withholding key sets corrected for 1099-INT/R/NEC (state vs. federal).
STABILITY & POLISH
• Fixed Metal/GGML shutdown errors.
• Form 1040 address now auto-populates from your saved Profile.
• New Federal Filing section in Help & About: what you can file, mailing flow, limitations, step-by-step, disclaimer.
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Information
- Seller
- KnotTheory.ai Inc.
- Size
- 15.8 MB
- Category
- Finance
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, French, German, Hindi, Italian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 1040 Filing and File extension $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 KnotTheory.ai Inc.

