The present invention relates to a method for a communication dialog when recognizing handwriting between a capturing device (HWSC+) at a client (C) and a recognizer unit (HWRE+) at a server (S), the server (S) and the client (C) being connected via a network, the method comprising the step of translating the captured handwriting into a digital transfer format for captured handwriting and handwriting recognizing, hereafter called digital ink (HWPRP), at the client (C) terminal, delivering the digital ink to the server (S), and when the digital ink is recognized by the recognizer unit at the server (S), delivering the recognition result back to the client (C), comprising the further steps of initializing a recognizing session and configuring a context of said handwriting recognizer unit (HWRE+) by an instruction in the digital ink (HWPRP) exchanged via said network, requesting (RReq1, RReq2) recognizing the digital ink part by part, and replying (RRes1, RRes2)a partial recognition result when the recognizer unit has recognized one or a sum of said parts until the digital ink is recognized or the process is interrupted. The invention further relates to a handwriting recognition system, a handwriting recognition client, a handwriting recognition server (S), and a computer software product.