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Sort your tax slips into clean per-client folders

Point PDF Insight at a folder of T4, RL-1, T4A, T5 and RL-3 slips. It reads each page, recognizes the slip, and proposes a tidy per-client, per-year folder structure. It all runs on your own computer.

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The problem: one folder, every client, every slip

By late February the slips arrive all at once. A client emails three PDFs, photographs two more on a phone, and drops a scanned envelope into your portal. Multiply that across a roster and you have one giant folder named Downloads where Document(4).pdf is a spouse's RL-1 and scan0031.pdf is a T4A nobody labelled.

Before you can prepare a single return you have to figure out whose slip this is, which tax year it belongs to, and where it should live. Sorting that pile by eye is hours of low-value clicking, and it is exactly the kind of repetitive work that invites a mis-file in the middle of a 14-hour day.

Before and after

From one undifferentiated dump to a structure you would actually hand to a colleague.

Before
Downloads/
  Document(4).pdf
  scan0031.pdf
  IMG_2271.HEIC
  releve.pdf
  T4_2025_final_v2.pdf
  feuillet (1).pdf
  numerisation-03.pdf
  … 40 more files
After
Clients/
  Tremblay, Marie/
    2025/
      T4 - Marie Tremblay.pdf
      RL-1 - Marie Tremblay.pdf
      T5 - Desjardins.pdf
  Gagnon, Luc/
    2025/
      T4A - honoraires.pdf
      RL-1 - Luc Gagnon.pdf
  À réviser/  (unrecognized)

How PDF Insight sorts, on your own machine

  1. Point it at the messy folder

    Drop in everything as it arrived: PDFs, phone photos, crooked scans, French and English slips mixed together. No renaming first.

  2. It reads and recognizes each slip locally

    A local model classifies each document and on-device OCR reads the scanned ones. It distinguishes a T4 from a T4A, an RL-1 from an RL-3, and keeps the federal and Québec slips for the same income together.

  3. It proposes per-client, per-year folders

    Using your own naming rules, it groups slips by client and tax year. Anything it cannot confidently identify goes to an À réviser folder instead of being guessed into the wrong place.

  4. You review, then confirm

    Nothing moves until you approve the structure. Fix any edge cases, then write the folders to disk. The internet could be unplugged the whole time.

Client slips never leave your computer

Sorting tax slips means handling SINs, income figures and addresses. In the default local tier, PDF Insight does the reading and classifying entirely on-device. There is no upload, no server, and no third-party copy of a client's slip to breach. It removes the disclosure risk instead of insuring against it.

Read how the local-first model works →

What this does, and what it doesn't

It does

  • Recognize T4, T4A, T5, RL-1, RL-2, RL-3, RL-31 and REER/FHSA receipts in FR or EN
  • Group slips into per-client and per-year folders by your rules
  • Flag anything ambiguous for your review before writing folders

It doesn't

  • Answer questions about a document or chat with your PDFs
  • Prepare or file a return, or replace your tax software
  • Claim to read every scan perfectly, which is why you confirm the sort

FAQ

Which slips can PDF Insight sort?

The common Canadian and Québec personal-tax slips: T4, T4A, T5, RL-1, RL-2, RL-3, RL-31 and RRSP/REER and FHSA contribution receipts, in French or English. Anything it does not recognize is left for you to place, so nothing is filed silently into the wrong folder.

Does sorting happen in the cloud?

No. In the default local tier the classification and OCR run on your own computer. Client slips, including SINs and income amounts, are never uploaded, and the folder structure is written to your own disk.

Does it move my files automatically?

You review the proposed per-client and per-year structure first. Nothing is moved until you confirm, so you stay in control of where each slip lands.

Will every slip be classified correctly?

No tool reads every scan perfectly. PDF Insight proposes a sort and flags the slips it is unsure about so you can correct them before the folders are written.

Sort this season's slips into clean folders

PDF Insight reads, recognizes and groups Canadian and Québec tax slips into per-client folders on your own Mac or PC, on-device and bilingual. Try it free for 14 days, no card required.