1. A method for correcting an optical character recognition (OCR) result, the method comprising: performing character recognition on a content using an OCR technique, the content comprising character information; removing extra carriage return information from the result of performing character recognition, wherein the extra carriage return information comprises carriage return information other than carriage return information indicating a start of a paragraph or an end of a paragraph; outputting a character recognition result after removing the extra carriage return information; and correcting word spacing on the outputted character recognition result.