PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picking system and a picking method capable of recognizing each picking object from plural picking objects such as randomly placed medicine and picking the same.SOLUTION: A picking system includes: an image input means 10 that inputs an image including plural picking objects a template storage means 16 that stores template images or area of the respective template images based on each kind of the picking objects with respect to the plural picking objects an object area extraction means 12 that extracts an area of a picking object from the images input by the image input means 10 and an identifying means 15 that identifies the respective picking objects using an evaluation function including a first term of a difference between an area of a rectangle which circumscribes with an area of respective picking objects and an area of respective picking objects and a second term of a difference between an area of the template image of the respective picking objects and the area of the respective picking objects.
