ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.

ParaView was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources. It can be run on supercomputers to analyze datasets of terascale as well as on laptops for smaller data.

This is an abridged version of the ParaView User's Manual. For a regularly updated version of the manual, refer to the ParaView Wiki (Manual). A pdf version of the Users Manual is also included in the official ParaView Binary binaries and can be downloaded from the download page