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Software designed for users to create content object. It contains the following subcategories:

•Pattern design software: This commodity includes a software tool that allows one to design and print their own customized cross-stich or grip work patterns from hand drawn or imported images or photos.

•Graphics or photo imaging software: Software to draw, manipulate images, color, type special effects for print or presentation programs.

•Video creation and editing software: Software to enable video production.

•Word processing software: Software that allows users to create, edit, store, and print documents.

•Charting software: Software that provides templates for adding the drawing and diagramming of charts.

•Presentation software: Presentation software is application software for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc. It employs colorful graphics to present business information and other complicated data in easy-to-read charts and graphs in order to make immediate comprehension easier.

•Web page creation and editing software: This is an editing software used for webpage development. It is preferably used for its easy access and usability.

•Calender and scheduling software: An application that helps in scheduling or planning the activities electronically. A printout of the schedule can also be made.

•Spreadsheet software: Spreadsheet software is a type of application program which manipulates numerical and string data in rows and columns of cells. The value in a cell can be calculated from a formula which can involve other cells. A value is recalculated automatically whenever a value on which it depends changes. Different cells may be displayed with different formats. Some spreadsheets support three-dimensions matrices, and cyclic references which lead to iterative calculation.

•Optical character reader OCR or scanning software: Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of converting an image of text, such as a scanned paper document or electronic fax file, into electronic text. The text in an image is not editable: the letters are made of tiny dots (pixels) that together form a picture of the text. During OCR, the software analyzes an image and converts the pictures of the characters to editable text based on the patterns of the pixels in the image. OCR also enables screen readers and refreshable Braille displays to read the text contained in some images. The software used for OCR is called OCR software.

•Desktop publishing software: Desktop publishing (DTP) software combine text and graphics into documents such as books, magazines, brochures, and manuals by using a computer system, and high-resolution output devices.