If you have Ms Office then you’ll have probably have OneNote. Take the image and paste it into OneNote. Now right click on the image (in OneNote and in the popup menu) you should see Copy Text from Picture as the third item in the menu.

Just click that then paste the text in to notepad, a text editor, whatever. There’s your text.

Here’s the text pasted directly from the clipboard. 100% accurate apart from a ! that it found from somewhere near the edge (just after wain)!

Solution to Puzzle 1
ain, alb, albs, als, ani, ard, ards, arid, ars, awn, blah, blain, dhal
dhals, dirl, dirls, drain, draw, drawn, fah, fain, fan, far, fard, tards,
farl, farls, fars, faw, fawn, flan, flaw, flawn, fra, hain, half, halts, han,
hard, hards, harl, harls, harn, harns, haw, hid, ids, infra, inward,
inwards, lah, lain, lar, lard, lards, larn, larns, law, lawin, lawn, nard,
nards, rah, rai, rain, ran, rani, raw, rawn, rid, rids, slain, slaw, wain, !
wald, walds, wan, war, ward, wards, warn, warns, wars, wha, wharf,
wharfs, whid, whids, whir, whirl, whirls, whirs, Win