diff --git a/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp b/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
index e32b329..45596e0 100644
--- a/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
+++ b/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ namespace alpr
       float height_to_width_ratio = pipeline_data->config->charHeightMM[lineidx] / pipeline_data->config->charWidthMM[lineidx];
       float avgCharWidth = avgCharHeight / height_to_width_ratio;
 
+      if (config->debugCharSegmenter)
+      {
+        cout << "LINE " << lineidx << ": avgCharHeight: " << avgCharHeight << " - height_to_width_ratio: " << height_to_width_ratio << endl;
+        cout << "LINE " << lineidx << ": avgCharWidth: " << avgCharWidth << endl;
+      }
+      
+      
       removeSmallContours(pipeline_data->thresholds, avgCharHeight, pipeline_data->textLines[lineidx]);
 
       // Do the histogram analysis to figure out char regions