PURPOSE: To reduce the device scale, to execute the recognition at a high speed, and improve the recognition rate by adopting a recurrent type neural network for the character recognizing device using a neural network.

CONSTITUTION: With respect to the character recognizing device consisting of a character input means 101, a neural network 102, and a recognition result output means 103, a recurrent type neural network in which each node 104 for constituting a neural network 102 has a feedback in the inside is adopted.