diff --git a/data/omniglot/preprocess.sh b/data/omniglot/preprocess.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -x
+
+# download data and convert to .json format
+if [ ! -d "data/all_data" ] || [ ! "$(ls -A data/all_data)" ]; then
+    pushd preprocess
+    ./data_to_json.sh
+    popd
+fi
+
+NAME="omniglot" # name of the dataset, equivalent to directory name
+
+cd ../utils
+
+./preprocess.sh --name $NAME $@
+
+cd ../$NAME
diff --git a/data/omniglot/preprocess/data_to_json.py b/data/omniglot/preprocess/data_to_json.py
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+import os
+import json
+import glob
+import numpy as np
+
+from PIL import Image
+from collections import defaultdict
+
+image_size = (28, 28)
+status_update_after = 5000 # images processed
+
+user_class = dict()
+user_data = defaultdict(dict)
+
+parent_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
+image_paths = os.path.join(parent_path, 'data', 'raw_data',  'images_*', '*', '*', '*.png')
+
+for i, character_file in enumerate(glob.glob(image_paths)):
+    character_class = '.'.join(character_file.split('/')[-4:-1])
+    user_id = character_file.split('/')[-1].split('_')[0]
+    # instance_num = character_file.split('/')[-1].split('_')[1].split('.')[0]
+
+    img = Image.open(character_file).resize(image_size, resample=Image.LANCZOS)
+    flattened_img = np.array(img.convert('L')).flatten() / 255.
+
+    if user_id not in user_class:
+        user_class[user_id] = character_class
+        user_data[user_id]['x'] = list()
+        user_data[user_id]['y'] = list()
+    user_data[user_id]['x'].append(flattened_img.tolist())
+    user_data[user_id]['y'].append(user_id)
+
+    if (i+1) % status_update_after == 0:
+        print ("{} images converted".format(i+1))
+
+all_data = dict()
+all_data['users'] = list(user_class.keys())
+all_data['num_samples'] = [ len(user_data[x]['x']) for x in all_data['users'] ]
+all_data['user_data'] = user_data
+
+file_name = 'all_data.json'
+file_path = os.path.join(parent_path, 'data', 'all_data', file_name)
+
+with open(file_path, 'w') as outfile:
+    json.dump(all_data, outfile)
diff --git a/data/omniglot/preprocess/data_to_json.sh b/data/omniglot/preprocess/data_to_json.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Setup data and raw_data directories, if they don't already exist
+if [ ! -d "../data/raw_data" ]; then
+    mkdir -p ../data/raw_data
+fi
+
+# Check and download data if needed
+./get_data.sh
+
+if [ ! "$(ls -A ../data/all_data)" ]; then
+    mkdir -p ../data/all_data
+    echo "------------------------------"
+    echo "converting data to .json format"
+    python3 data_to_json.py
+    echo "finished converting data to .json format"
+fi
diff --git a/data/omniglot/preprocess/get_data.sh b/data/omniglot/preprocess/get_data.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+DOWNLOAD_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brendenlake/omniglot/master/python/"
+declare -a data_folders=( "images_background" "images_evaluation" )
+
+pushd "../data/raw_data"
+    echo "------------------------------"
+    for data_folder in "${data_folders[@]}"; do
+        if [ ! -d "${data_folder}" ]; then
+            echo "Downloading ${data_folder}"
+            wget --no-check-certificate "${DOWNLOAD_URL}/${data_folder}.zip"
+            unzip "${data_folder}.zip"
+            rm ${data_folder}.zip
+        else
+            echo "Found Omniglot image directory ${data_folder}"
+        fi
+    done
+popd