Please take a look at the screenshot below and see if you can tell me why this won't work. The examples in on the reference page for TextRecognize look pretty impressive, I don't think recognizing single letters like this should be a problem. I've tried resizing the letters as well as having the image sharpened.

For convenience in case you want to try this yourself I have included the image that I use at the bottom of this post. You can also find plenty more like this by searching for "Wordfeud" in Google Image Search. 

![Mathematica screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ACi6E.png)

![Wordfeud board](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JHYuh.png)