Method and apparatus for recognizing text

The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for recognizing a text. The method comprises: acquiring images of a text area of an input image, the acquired images including a text centerline graph, a text direction offset graph, a text boundary offset graph, and a text character classification graph; extracting coordinates of feature points of a character center from the text centerline graph; sorting the extracted coordinates of the feature points based on the text direction offset graph to obtain a coordinate sequence of the feature points; determining a polygonal bounding box of the text area based on the coordinate sequence of the feature points of the character center and the text boundary offset graph; and determining a classification result of the feature points of the character center, based on the coordinate sequence of the feature points of the character center and the text character classification graph.