Abstract: There are disclosed a mobile terminal and a controlling method thereof, which is able to simply input a real-time external image to an input field as data, specifically, such that a user may input a character or picture captured from the real-time image inputted from the outside via the camera and that the real time image maybe captured without switching a screen displaying the input field, so as to allow a user to intuitively recognize which input field an object provided in the image is inputted to.