Progress display of handwriting input

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, at a user device, user input corresponding to handwritten text to be recognized using a recognition engine;
• receiving, at the user device, a representation of the handwritten text, the representation including the handwritten text parsed into individual handwritten characters;
• displaying, in a first portion of a display of the user device, the handwritten characters using a first indicator;
• receiving, at the user device, an identification of a text character recognized as one of the handwritten characters by the recognition engine;
• displaying, in a second portion of the display of the user device, the text character;
• and
• adjusting, at the user device, the one of the handwritten characters from being displayed using the first indicator to being displayed using a second indicator in response to the received identification of the text character recognized as the one of the handwritten characters by the recognition engine, wherein the first and second indicators are different,
• while continuing to display handwritten characters that have not yet been recognized by the recognition engine using the first indicator.

A computing device, comprising:

• a display;
• at least one processor coupled to the display;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program code, the at least one processor configured to execute the executable computer program code to perform operations including:
• receiving user input corresponding to handwritten text to be recognized using a recognition engine;
• receiving a representation of the handwritten text, the representation including the handwritten text parsed into individual handwritten characters;
• displaying, in a first portion of a display of a user device, the handwritten characters using a first indicator;
• receiving an identification of a text character recognized as one of the handwritten characters by the recognition engine;
• displaying, in a second portion of the display of the user device, the text character;
• and
• adjusting the one of the handwritten characters from being displayed using the first indicator to being displayed using a second indicator in response to the received identification of the text character recognized as the one of the handwritten characters by the recognition engine, wherein the first indicator is a first color and the second indicator is a second color and the first and second indicators are different,
• while continuing to display handwritten characters that have not yet been recognized by the recognition engine using the first indicator.