A text recognition method and apparatus disclosed. The text recognition method includes: obtaining a to-be-detected image; determining a target text detection area in the to-be-detected image, where the target text detection area includes target text in the to-be-detected image, and the target text detection area is a polygonal area including m vertex pairs, m being a positive integer greater than 2; correcting the polygonal area to m−1 rectangular areas to obtain a corrected target text detection area; and performing text recognition on the corrected target text detection area to determine the target text, and outputting the target text.