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title: "Getting Started"
description: "Where to start with LumiScan: three guided paths - first image in 10 minutes, your first industrial vision application, and integrating LumiScan into your own software - plus the platform overview."
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# Getting Started – LumiScan Documentation

Pick the path that matches what you want to do. Each one is a short series of numbered steps that ends with a result you can see, and each step tells you when it is done and what comes next.

| You are | Path | You end with | Time |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **User** - you want to see what the camera delivers | [First Image in 10 Minutes](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/getting-started/first-image.html) | a LumiScan X image and point cloud on your screen, saved to disk | about 10 min |
| **System integrator** - you build a cell with camera, vision app and controller | [Your First Industrial Vision Application](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/getting-started/first-application.html) | a part found in a camera image, the result read by your PLC | about 1 h |
| **Software developer** - your own program talks to LumiScan | [Integrating LumiScan into Your Application](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/getting-started/integrating.html) | your program captures an image and reads a processing result | about 1 h |

## Before you start: which parts do you need?

LumiScan is a set of building blocks: cameras, vision apps that process their images, tools that prepare neural networks, and the robot guidance software LumiScan VGR. Which of them you need, what hardware they run on and how they connect to your controller is described in the [Platform Overview](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/getting-started/platform-overview.html) - a five-minute read that saves the most common detours.

## After the first steps

- Each product has its own manual with the full reference; the [overview page](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/index.html) lists them all.
- How the vision apps exchange data - addresses, call patterns, status codes - is described once for all of them in the [LumiScan Keryx](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-keryx/1.0.0/index.html) manual. To try it hands-on, without a camera, see [Getting Started with LumiScan Keryx](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-keryx/1.0.0/getting-started.html).
- Licences: [LumiScan Licensing](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-licensing/1.0.4/index.html).
- Questions and error messages: [FAQ](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/faq.html) and [Troubleshooting](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/troubleshooting.html).