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.. Manuel Guenther <manuel.guenther@idiap.ch>
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==================================
 MNIST Database Interface for Bob
==================================

The MNIST_ database is a database of handwritten digits, which consists of a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples.
It was made available by Yann Le Cun and Corinna Cortes.
The data was originally extracted from a larger set made available by NIST_, before being size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image (28x28 pixels).

This package only contains the Bob_ accessor methods to use this database directly from Python.
It does not contain the original raw data files, which need to be obtained through the link above.

Installation
------------
To install this package -- alone or together with other `Packages of Bob <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Packages>`_ -- please read the `Installation Instructions <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Installation>`_.
For Bob_ to be able to work properly, some dependent packages are required to be installed.
Please make sure that you have read the `Dependencies <https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Dependencies>`_ for your operating system.

Documentation
-------------
For further documentation on this package, please read the `Stable Version <http://pythonhosted.org/bob.db.mnist/index.html>`_ or the `Latest Version <https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/docs/latest/bioidiap/bob.db.mnist/master/index.html>`_ of the documentation.
For a list of tutorials on this or the other packages ob Bob_, or information on submitting issues, asking questions and starting discussions, please visit its website.

.. _bob: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob
.. _mnist: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist
.. _nist: http://www.nist.gov




