The invention discloses a method and a device for extracting pictures in webpage content, and belongs to the technical field of computers. The method includes acquiring picture nodes in the webpage content, and acquiring character description information of the picture nodes; extracting the pictures with the highest degree of correlation with the webpage content from the picture nodes according to the character description information of the picture nodes. The device comprises a first acquiring module and a first extracting module. By the method and the device, the degree of correlation of the pictures and the webpage content is increased, so that webpage information themes represented by the extracted pictures are clearer, and user experience is greatly improved.