To provide an optical character identification method for improving identification speed in a field of artificial intelligence and in a field of deep learning, a device, an electronic device, and storage media.SOLUTION: A method establishes, relative to a picture to be identified, a surrounding frame of a text area therein, extracts a text area picture from the picture to be identified based on the surrounding frame, establishes a surrounding frame of a text line in the text area picture, extracts a text line picture from the text area picture based on the surrounding frame, and performs text sequence identification relative to the text line picture to obtain identification results.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1