The present application relates to a method and a device for extracting information from a pie chart. The method comprises the following steps: detecting each element in a pie chart to be processed and position information thereof, wherein the elements comprise text elements and legend elements; performing text recognition on the detected text elements and legend elements to obtain text information corresponding to the text elements and legend texts included in the legend elements respectively; and obtaining sector information and legend information according to each detected element and position information thereof and the legend texts, and enabling the sector information to correspond to the legend information one by one, wherein the sector information comprises a sector color and a proportion of the sector in the pie chart, and the legend information comprises a legend color and a corresponding legend text thereof.