The present invention discloses a method and a device for touching character segmentation in character recognition, and belongs to the character recognition field. The method comprises the steps of carrying out preprocessing to obtain connected domains, an average character width and an average character height of a row image; carrying out connected domain analysis, marking touching connected domains, carrying out stroke extraction for selected touching connected domains, carrying out segmentation point detection of the touching connected domains to obtain pre-segmentation points, and saving character blocks for non-touching connected domains; merging extracted strokes according to the pre-segmentation points to obtain the character blocks; saving the character blocks and turning to a next connected domain for carrying out touching determination, and outputting a character block sequence after all connected domains having been traversed; and merging the character blocks according to reference information and outputting recognition result. The method and the device provided in the invention merge the strokes according to the pre-segmentation points to obtain the character blocks, guaranteeing that segmentation points in a larger scope can be detected, and take the mode that contour information is used to predetect the segmentation points as a parameter in merging, avoiding merging mistakes caused by merging correct segmentation points.