The invention is suitable for the technical field of question searching by photographing, and provides a question searching method and device by photographing, and intelligent equipment. The intelligent equipment comprises a display screen and a rotatable camera. The question searching method by photographing comprises the following steps that: when the intelligent equipment is under a placement state, detecting an instruction of question searching by photographing; after the instruction of question searching by photographing is detected, detecting the photographing instruction of the camera;according to the photographing instruction of the camera, photographing a photo in the current framing range of the camera, and transmitting the photo to the display screen to be displayed; and aftera confirmation question searching instruction on the display screen is detected, according to the photo, carrying out question searching, and displaying a question searching result. The above method is simple in operation, a situation that photographing is influenced by shaking during photographing is avoided, and the efficiency of the question searching by photographing is improved.