Method for recognizing character contents included in image and device thereof

The application discloses a method for recognizing character contents included in an image and a device thereof. The method comprises the steps that a target image to be analyzed is acquired; color recognition is performed on the pixels in the target image; the pixels are classified according to color similarity; the target image is broken down into multiple different image layers, and the same image layer is used for presenting the pixels of the same color category; text recognition is performed in each image layer; and a text recognition result is outputted. With application of the method, difficulty of character detection is reduced and processing of character information in the image is enabled to be more accurate and reliable.