Abstract: To address the problem that the accuracy of the line scan vision detection system is easily affected by the mechanical structure error and the specific influence mechanism is not clear, a mathematical model of the influence of mechanical error on the system imaging error was established and analyzed. Based on the theories of multi-system kinematics and homogeneous coordinate transformation, a mechanical system error transfer model of the line scan vision detection system was derived, and a system error comprehensive model was established with reference to the line scan imaging characteristics to clarify the correspondence between mechanical errors and system image output errors. The error sensitivity of the model was analyzed based on the complete differential-coefficient theory, and the error sources that had a great impact on the errors of the x and y dimensions of the output image were clarified. An experiment for verifying error sources is carried out and the result shows that the established system error comprehensive model can accurately identify the key error sources that have the greatest influence on the output image. The deviation between the numerical sensitivity prediction by the model and the actual value does not exceed 2.38%, which can achieve the accurate sensitivity prediction of the key error sources.