The invention discloses a Chinese detection method in a natural scene image based on a connected domain. The method comprises the steps: firstly, obtaining the natural scene image, and carrying out preprocessing of stroke width transformation on the natural scene image, wherein an output of the stroke width transformation is an image, and each pixel value of the image represents a maximum possible stroke width of a pixel of a corresponding position of an original image; demarcating connected domains in the image pixels; extracting various features of a connected component after the connected component is obtained, wherein the feature combinations can well express the connected component; from a Chinese structure, firstly, carrying out within character mergence, then carrying out inter-character mergence, wherein a within character mergence method is used for detecting single Chinese character, a inter-character mergence method is used for detecting text lines, and a text area is demarcated by a rectangular frame. According to the Chinese detection method, a complex structure of Chinese serves as a starting point, pertinence in a Chinese detection aspect is good, and therefore the Chinese detection method in the natural scene image based on the connected domain has high initiative and high accuracy.