diff --git a/src/lstm/input.cpp b/src/lstm/input.cpp
index a104198cff..73b584b3ab 100644
--- a/src/lstm/input.cpp
+++ b/src/lstm/input.cpp
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 // File:        input.cpp
 // Description: Input layer class for neural network implementations.
 // Author:      Ray Smith
-// Created:     Thu Mar 13 09:10:34 PDT 2014
 //
 // (C) Copyright 2014, Google Inc.
 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@ Pix* Input::PrepareLSTMInputs(const ImageData& image_data,
     tprintf("Bad pix from ImageData!\n");
     return nullptr;
   }
-  if (width <= min_width || height < min_width) {
+  if (width < min_width || height < min_width) {
     tprintf("Image too small to scale!! (%dx%d vs min width of %d)\n", width,
             height, min_width);
     pixDestroy(&pix);