1. A character recognition apparatus, comprising: a binarizer for binarizing an input image; a character extractor for extracting at least one character area from the binarized image; a character feature value extractor for calculating a slope value of the extracted at least one character area and setting the calculated slope value as a character feature value; and a character recognizer for recognizing a character by using a neural network for recognizing a plurality of characters by receiving the set character feature value.