10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the overall text region is detected by comparing the similarity of a region based feature between the initial text region and an adjacent region.
8. A text recognition method, the method comprising: detecting a user-specified position; detecting an initial text region within a predetermined distance from the user-specified position; detecting an overall text region by expanding the initial text region; and recognizing text included in the overall text region, wherein detecting the initial text region further comprises: detecting candidate text components, which exist within a virtual window having the user-specified position as a center; and determining the initial text region as a bounding box of at least one text component among text components, which are obtained by removing non-text components from the detected candidate text components, the at least one text component existing within an area a predetermined distance from the user-specified position.