19. An electronic device for entering text into a text field, the electronic device comprising: a processor; a display in electronic communication with the processor; a memory in electronic communication with the display and the processor, the memory configured with instructions to perform a method, the method including: activating a field for text entry on the display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display concurrently while also displaying the activated field for text entry, wherein the current frame is associated with a viewfinder; determining an area of interest associated with the viewfinder; recognizing text in the determined area of interest associated with the current frame, wherein recognizing text in the determined area of interest is performed without capturing the current frame in the viewfinder and without persisting in storage the current frame; and displaying text corresponding to the recognized text in the activated field.
22. The electronic device of claim 19 , wherein the electronic device further comprises a camera, and wherein displaying the current frame in the viewfinder includes displaying a representation of at least a portion of a frame of video dynamically captured by a camera application associated with the electronic device.