The MNIST database of handwritten digits, available from this page, has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger set available from NIST.
It consists of four files that store data in a simple file format (idx format) which is documented in the MNIST database homepage. I wrote this C program to be able to extract the descriptions of handwritten digits of a certain value separately (eg. only the 0s or only the 1s). The text output is pretty simple and closely resembles the format of a PGM file. It is describes the grayscale pixel values of the image in decimal ASCII. Pixel values range from 0 to 255.
As a bonus, there is the opportunity to extract the images in portable graymap file format (PGM) image files.
This program was written with these guys mostly in mind.
[download mnist.c]
Managing organized complexity 
ok! eidame ton kwdika, katebasame ta arxeia apo to mnist, eidame kai to site tou wikipedia, apo ekei kai pera ti ginetai?
Παίρνεις τα data που σε ενδιαφέρουν (τα 0 και τα 1), τα βάζεις το MatLab …και κάνεις την άσκηση.
Γιώργο καλημέρα και καλή εβδομάδα !
Να υποθέσω ότι έμαθες για αυτό:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/hmrc_loses_lots_data
Κανένα σχόλιο ;
@Dimitris Andrakakis:
Your wish is my command.
:)