A text recognition method includes: acquiring an image including text information, the text information including M characters, M being a positive integer greater than 1; performing text recognition on the image to acquire character information about the M characters; recognizing reading direction information about each character in accordance with the character information about the M characters, the reading direction information being used to indicate a next character corresponding to a current character in a semantic reading order; and ranking the M characters in accordance with the reading direction information about the M characters to acquire a text recognition result of the text information.