19. A system for automatically preparing at least a portion of an electronic tax return, the system comprising: an imaging device; and a computing device configured to receive an image of at least one document containing tax data therein obtained by the imaging device, the computing device being configured to identify connected pixels within the received image and extract one or more features from the acquired image of the at least one document based at least in part upon connected pixels, and identify 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 operatively connected to the computing device, the computing device further configured to populate at least one field of an interview screen generated by a computerized tax preparation application executed by the computing device with at least a portion of the tax data determined from the acquired image of the a) least one document to automatically prepare at least a portion of the electronic tax return.
19. A system for automatically preparing at least a portion of an electronic tax return, the system comprising: an imaging device; and a computing device configured to receive an image of at least one document containing tax data therein obtained by the imaging device, the computing device being configured to identify connected pixels within the received image and extract one or more features from the acquired image of the at least one document based at least in part upon connected pixels, and identify 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 operatively connected to the computing device, the computing device further configured to populate at least one field of an interview screen generated by a computerized tax preparation application executed by the computing device with at least a portion of the tax data determined from the acquired image of the a) least one document to automatically prepare at least a portion of the electronic tax return. 22. The system of claim 19 , wherein the computing device and the imaging device are separate devices.