10. A computer-implemented method for preparing at least a portion of an electronic tax return with a computerized tax preparation application, the computer-implemented method comprising: a computing device receiving an image of at least one document containing tax data therein with an imaging device; the computing device identifying connected pixels within the received image and extracting one or more features from the acquired image of the at least one document based at least in part upon identified connected pixels; the computing device identifying a tax form corresponding to the at least one document from a plurality of different tax forms based at least in part on a confidence level associated with a comparison of the extracted one or more features to a database; and the computing device automatically populating at least one field of an interview screen generated by the computerized tax preparation application with at least a portion of the tax data determined from the acquired image of the at least one document to automatically prepare at least a portion of the electronic tax return.
10. A computer-implemented method for preparing at least a portion of an electronic tax return with a computerized tax preparation application, the computer-implemented method comprising: a computing device receiving an image of at least one document containing tax data therein with an imaging device; the computing device identifying connected pixels within the received image and extracting one or more features from the acquired image of the at least one document based at least in part upon identified connected pixels; the computing device identifying a tax form corresponding to the at least one document from a plurality of different tax forms based at least in part on a confidence level associated with a comparison of the extracted one or more features to a database; and the computing device automatically populating at least one field of an interview screen generated by the computerized tax preparation application with at least a portion of the tax data determined from the acquired image of the at least one document to automatically prepare at least a portion of the electronic tax return. 15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the imaging device comprises a mobile communication device.