The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for optical character recognition, an electronic device and a storage medium, and relates to the fields of artificial intelligence and deep learning. The method may include: determining, for a to-be-recognized image, a text bounding box of a text area therein, and extracting a text area image from the to-be-recognized image according to the text bounding box; determining a bounding box of text lines in the text area image, and extracting a text-line image from the text area image according to the bounding box; and performing text sequence recognition on the text-line image, and obtaining a recognition result. The application of the solution in the present application can improve a recognition speed and the like.