Method and electronic equipment for checking extended name card information in real time

The invention provides a method and electronic equipment for checking extended name card information in real time. According to the method, a name card image is acquired, multiple name card information used for representing name card characters is extracted from the name card image, the name card information is transmitted to a server communicated with the electronic equipment so as to acquire searching results of the extended name card information searched according to at least one name card information and from the server, and the searched extended name card information is overlaid on the name card image to be displayed when at least one extended name card information is included in the searching results. The method and the electronic equipment for checking the extended name card information in real time can directly display the extended name card information corresponding to the name card for a user when the user utilizes an optical camera device to shoot and identify the name card.