Something that would be incredibly useful to me would be a list of words used in the Japanese versions of programs like Photoshop, Paint tool SAI, etc.

A lot of these words are lacking in my vocabulary, and that's not particularly surprising since sometimes the English versions of these programs are almost beyond me (Deinterlace the qbist convolution matrix? Huh?).

I've searched around but haven't found anything.

Also, for some reason my menus in Paint Tool SAI are all in Chinese, even though the program was produced in Japan. Thanks for reminding me how much I suck at reading Chinese...stupid computer.

I'd be happy with just a way to get the menus into a .txt file so that I don't have to manually type in all these kanji one by one using whatever readings of them that I know.

Try looking for software tutorials in Japanese rather than word lists. For example, searching for "Photoshop 講座" brings up this site, which names and explains all of Photoshop's basic functions.

Another possibility is StarDict, which often but not always translates menu items for Japanese software. (That is to say, sometimes the StarDict definition popups work for mouseovering Japanese menu items.)

Related: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5509

You could also try cb4960's tool Capture2Text: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7457

I don't really feel like reading user manuals for things that I already know how to do, so I think I'll just run the user manual through a word sorter and add the results to my anki vocab deck (which actually does have basically all the words I already know in it, besides a few odd compounds, though most of the cards are deactivated).

Thanks guys!

Also thanks for reminding me to reinstall stardict (I recently reformatted my hard drive).

Wait, never mind, I found the language configuration file for SAI and converted it to text.