diff --git a/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp b/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
index b5dbb3e..82e3c70 100644
--- a/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
+++ b/src/openalpr/segmentation/charactersegmenter.cpp
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ namespace alpr
       if (this->config->debugCharSegmenter)
         cout << "All Boxes size " << allBoxes.size() << endl;
 
-      if (allBoxes.size() == 0)
+      if (allBoxes.size() < config->postProcessMinCharacters)
         break;
 
       float rowScore = 0;