I have created a simple function for facerecognition by using the facerecognizer from OpenCV. It works all fine with images from people.
Now I would like to make a test by using handwritten characters instead of people. I came across MNIST dataset, but they store images in a weird file which I have never seen before.
I simply need to extract a few images from:
train-images.idx3-ubyte
and save them in a folder as .gif
Or am I missunderstand this MNIST thing. If yes where could I get such a dataset?
EDIT
I also have the gzip file:
train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
I am trying to read the content, but show() does not work and if I read() I see random symbols.
images = gzip.open("train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz", 'rb')
print images.read()
EDIT
Managed to get some usefull output by using: