Embodiments of the present invention provide a layout analysis method, comprising: extraction, collection of basic elements with respect to static area objects, analysis sequence determination and logical paragraph analysis, wherein the logical paragraph analysis comprises character analyzing, logical connection edge generating, line forming analyzing, paragraph forming analyzing, paragraph result filtering, basic elements collecting with respect to the dynamic area objects and basic element removing. According to the embodiments of the present invention, logical reference information and basic element data information are combined, and the logical reference information is fully used during layout analysis, such that a more accurate layout analysis result with respect to a fixed-layout document is acquired, and the layout analysis result is effectively improved.