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Heliosoph/EMNIST

Name: EMNIST
Creator: Heliosoph
License: cc-by-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:image-classification, source_datasets:original, language:en, license:cc-by-4.0, size_categories:100K<n<1M, arxiv:1702.05373, region:us, emnist, mnist, handwriting, characters, letters, digits, ocr, nist

EMNIST — handwritten letters and digits, MNIST-style IDX A verbatim mirror of the EMNIST dataset (Cohen, Afshar, Tapson & van Schaik, 2017), repackaged so each split's IDX files are fetchable individually. No pixels or labels added, removed, or reordered relative to NIST's release — only the hosting moved: the per-split members were extracted out of NIST's single bundled gzip.zip and re-uploaded at the repo root, byte-for-byte. Re-hosted under Heliosoph for ingestion-pipeline… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Heliosoph/EMNIST.

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Author / organization	Heliosoph
License (as declared)	cc-by-4.0
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Created	30 June 2026
Last updated at source	30 June 2026

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