An electronic device for optical character recognition (OCR) and method of operation of the electronic device. The electronic device for optical character recognition comprises a memory and a processor electrically connected with the memory. The processor is configured to store, in the memory, at least one content and at least one word position table individually corresponding to the at least one content, obtain an image for at least one character scanned on a printed document by an electronic pen, identify a content corresponding to the image from the at least one content, identify a word position table corresponding to the identified content from the at least one word position table, and obtain resultant information recognized by from the optical character recognition on the image based on the identified word position table and original data of the identified content. Other various embodiments are also possible.