<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ ]> <chapter id="getting-started" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"> <title>Getting Started</title> <para> libfprint includes several simple functional examples under the <computeroutput>examples/</computeroutput> directory in the libfprint source distribution. Those are good starting points. </para> <para> Usually the first thing you want to do is determine which fingerprint devices are present. This is done using the <ulink url="fp-context.html">FpContext</ulink> object. </para> <para> Once you have found a device you would like to operate, you should open it. Refer to <ulink url="fp-context.html">device operations</ulink>. This section also details enrollment, image capture, and verification. </para> <para> That should be enough to get you started, but do remember there are documentation pages on other aspects of libfprint's API (see the modules page). </para> </chapter>