The invention provides a detecting method and a detecting device, which can remove the influences of back reflected image and detect the characteristics of surface shape with a high precision by a cheap device structure. The detecting method comprises the steps that: firstly, stripes applicable for a transparent plate-shaped body (3) (a detected object) are determined to be set in a separating manner in image signals which are acquired by photographing reflected images formed on the surface of the transparent plate-shaped body and the reflected images formed on the back surface of the transparent plate-shaped body; then, the determined stripes (1) are used, and the surface shape of the transparent plate-shaped body (3) is evaluated through image analysis only by the reflected images, which are formed on the surface of the transparent plate-shaped body (3), of the stripes (1).