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The following documents contain information that you may find helpful as you use this help file. You can access NI Vision documents by selecting Start»All Programs»National Instruments»Vision»Documentation»NI Vision.

• NI Vision Development Module Readme—Contains information about new functionality, minimum system requirements, installation instructions, and descriptions of the documentation for the following: NI Vision for LabVIEW, NI Vision for LabWindows/CVI, NI Vision for Visual Basic, and Vision Assistant.
• NI Vision for Visual Basic User Manual—Describes how to create machine vision and image processing applications in Microsoft Visual Basic using the Vision Development Module. The manual guides you through tasks beginning with setting up your imaging system to taking measurements.
• NI Vision Concepts Manual—Describes the basic concepts of image analysis, image processing, and machine vision. This document also contains in-depth discussions about imaging functions for advanced users.
• NI OCR Training Interface Help—Contains information about how to use the OCR Training Interface to train characters, save character sets, and verify characters by comparing them to a reference character.
• NI Classification Training Interface Help—Contains information about how to use the NI Classification Training Interface to train and classify binary samples.
• NI Vision Template Editor Help—Contains information about how to use the NI Vision Template Editor to learn and edit template images that you can use with pattern matching, geometric matching, and golden template comparison functions.