The invention is suitable for the field of image processing, and provides an image character recognition method and device. The method comprises the steps that an algorithm is extracted through a preset character region to acquire a character region image included in image data to be recognized; the character region image is binarized to acquire a binarized character region image corresponding to the character region image; the first boundary location information of each character in the binarized character region image is determined based on the binarized character region image and a preset character boundary determining algorithm; character division operation is carried out on the binarized character region image based on the first boundary location information of each character to acquire a number of character sub-images; a number of character sub-images and a preset character template are matched; and the corresponding character information of a number of character sub-images is determined according to the matching result. According to the invention, the multi-character image is divided into single-character images, and then character recognition is carried out; and the problem of poor recognition accuracy of the existing character recognition technology is solved.