The invention relates to a hand-held laser code-jetting character recognizer under a complex background, which consists of to components including a hardware structure and a software structure, wherein the hardware structure comprises an image acquisition unit, an image processing unit, a data storage unit, a liquid crystal display unit, a GPRS communication unit, a key operation unit, a power supply module and the like; and the software structure comprises a system scheduling module, a hardware control module, a driver module, a hardware platform, a human-computer interface module, a database module, a recognition algorithm module and the like. By adopting an embedded type design, the hand-held laser code-jetting character recognizer integrates the image acquisition function, the digital image recognition function and the GPRS-based data transmission function, and can perform image acquisition and quick automatic recognition on an object on site and send the recognition result to an appointed sever through the GPRS communication unit. The recognizer is simple to operate and convenient to use, and has an extensive practical value and an application prospect in the technical field of pattern recognition detection devices.