The invention discloses an off-line handwritten form Chinese character recognition method and belongs to the technical field of Chinese character recognition and extraction. The method comprises the steps of data collection, preprocessing, feature extraction and recognition extraction. A classification and recognition standard in the Chinese character recognition method comprises that a sample to be tested is classified according to a minimum distance standard, the feature recognition is performed based on a 4*4 elastic mesh, in rough classification recognition, the number of feature points such as end points, inflection points and cross points in each of meshes are conducted statistics on, and weight sum is respectively performed, in a second classification recognition, the number of transverse, vertical, left-falling and right-falling stroke vectors in each of the meshes is recorded, and handwritten form Chinese characters are recognized and extracted. According to the method, both off-line handwritten form Chinese characters and print form Chinese characters can be recognized, the feature extraction method of the Chinese character recognition method is simple, and the recognition speed is fast.