20. The character recognizing apparatus as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the recognition controlling unit identifies a first word from one or more characters identified through the character recognition, and outputs a word that corresponds to the first word and is in a language other than a language other than a language of the first word.
11. A character recognizing apparatus in a portable device, the character recognizing apparatus comprising: a camera; a display unit for displaying an image obtained, in accordance with a character recognition request, using the camera in a preview mode in which a plurality of images are being sequentially displayed in real time; and a recognition controlling unit for controlling display of the image obtained in the preview mode, performing an auto focus function of the camera to obtain an image having a certain level of clarity for character recognition using the camera, character-recognition-processing the image having the certain level of clarity so as to generate recognition result data, and controlling display of a recognized character row on the display unit based on the recognition result data.