The invention discloses a processing method of a pavement crack image. The method mainly includes the following contents: 1, using an OTSU method to process the pavement crack image through an iteration process, and eliminating non-confidence regions in all iteration results in the pavement crack image; 2, executing a preprocessing algorithm which is of lesser iteration frequency and used on the pavement crack image; and 3, carrying out excessive iteration on the pavement crack image, processing a result, then using a processed result as a seed image, eliminating tiny regions in the seed image, utilizing an edge detection algorithm to set a ''growth fence'' in the pavement crack image, and finally completing image segmentation through regional seed growth. The pavement crack image processing method provided by the invention obviously improves an image preprocessing effect and an image segmentation effect, overcomes interference of noisy noises in the image, is higher in calculation efficiency, has higher robustness, is stable in performance, is applied to intelligent identification and statistics of pavement crack diseases, and improves identification precision and statistic efficiency of the pavement crack diseases.