About GruntWorx

  1. What is GruntWorx™?
  2. What are the benefits of using GruntWorx?
  3. What makes GruntWorx unique?
  4. How does GruntWorx achieve such high levels of accuracy across such a broad range of tax documents?
  5. What are GruntWorx system requirement?
  6. What types of source documents does GruntWorx read?
  7. What tax and document management software does GruntWorx work with?
  8. How much time does GruntWorx require to process a job?
  9. How can I try GruntWorx?

 

About GruntWorx

  1. What is GruntWorx™?

    GruntWorx is a web-based service that enables tax professionals to automate the classification of their clients' tax return data. GruntWorx converts your client's paper and digital tax documents into a well-organized, electronic PDF file: indexed, accessible, editable, and ready for faster, more accurate data entry and review.

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  2. What are the benefits of using GruntWorx?

    GruntWorx saves a tax preparer valuable time during tax season. With an automated and standardized method for organizing client source documents, your staff can more quickly and easily enter the client data into the tax application. GruntWorx is also the first step in moving towards the paperless tax process because it allows you to scan client source documents before you prepare their taxes.

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  3. What makes GruntWorx unique?

    GruntWorx is the first web-based application to read and classify data from paper-based forms and PDF files with greater than 90% accuracy across thousands of variations of IRS documents. GruntWorx's ease of use, security of client data, and extreme affordability offer an unmatched value proposition for accountants.  Furthermore, it requires no training. No software needs to be installed in your office or on your PC. And, it costs nothing to try.

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  4. How does GruntWorx achieve such high levels of accuracy across such a broad range of tax documents?

    By developing advanced patent-pending technologies, our multi-disciplinary engineering team has solved the problems that have plagued early attempts to automate tax document processing. Our document image processing technology optimizes the quality of real-world document images, including background colors, gray zones, speckles, streaks, rotated pages, etc., without any effort on the part of tax professionals. We use biometric pattern recognition, not simple OCR, to accurately identify each source document from thousands of different tax forms. Instead of conventional programming, GruntWorx employs state-of-the-art machine learning that gets smarter with each form that it processes. Combine all of this together, and you have a solution that meets the extremely high levels of accuracy required by the tax profession.

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  5. What are GruntWorx system requirements?

    GruntWorx requires only a PC with an Internet connection and a scanner.  No additional equipment or software is required, as all image processing occurs on the GruntWorx secure web servers.

    * Windows XP Professional or higher
    * Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 1.5 or higher
    * Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6 or higher

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  6. What types of source documents does GruntWorx read?

    GruntWorx recognizes thousands of variations of the IRS government forms, tax organizers, and brokerage statements. GruntWorx will even recognize and categorize blank pages and handwritten notes!

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  7. What tax and document management software does GruntWorx work with?

    GruntWorx works with all tax and document management software because it is a browser-based application that delivers a standard Adobe PDF file.

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  8. How much time does GruntWorx require to process a job?

    GruntWorx processes a typical return within 1 to 2 hours. During peak tax season returns may take slightly longer.

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  9. How can I try GruntWorx?

    With GruntWorx, you don't need any disk or software… just a web browser and an Internet connection. To demo the product, follow these easy steps:

    1. Visit our website at www.copanion.com
     
    2.  Click any of the ‘Register’ links on the Home page.

    3.  Fill in your basic information, email address, create a password, then press ‘Register’

    4. Shortly thereafter you will receive an email message confirmation your registration – and 25 free tax returns that you can test with source documents from any past tax year!

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