How to implement text recognition?

Question

PHP

There are several thousand pictures, you need to recognize text from them from 5 to 70 characters
. Russian and English fonts (different) without distortion, somewhere in 20% can be stylized, 5% with distortion.
How can this problem be solved

Answer 1

hire a Chinese, it will be 100 times cheaper)))

Answer 2

Maybe you can consolely pick up something a la finerider.
I have 531 thousand pictures for recognition)

Answer 3

AI, no?

Answer 4

Up to 70 characters? :) They still can't do a normal PHP chat bot here, it's already version 7...