8. A method of recognizing characters, the method comprising: displaying an image including a character; setting a region of interest in the displayed image; performing character recognition on the set region of interest and displaying a character recognition result; setting an error region according to the character recognition result; performing image copying according to a user input to correct an error of a character included in the set error region; and performing character recognition on a handwriting input using the image copying and displaying a character recognition result, wherein the displaying of the character recognition result comprises providing information obtained by searching for a recognized character in a dictionary included in a mobile device as the character recognition result, and performing a search using the character recognition result as a query word in the search after character recognition is performed on the handwriting input, and providing the search result to a display unit.
11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the character recognition is performed using an optical character reader (OCR) program.