Getting Content Out of a PDF

Different formats for different needs -- editable text, spreadsheet data, or just the images.

These three steps aren't sequential so much as three different destinations for the same source file, depending on what's actually needed: editable text and formatting calls for a Word conversion, tabular data that needs to stay usable as numbers calls for Excel specifically rather than a text format, and pulling out just the visual content (photos, diagrams, graphics) calls for image extraction instead of either. Picking the right one for the actual need matters more than doing all three.

Each step opens as its own tool -- download from one, upload into the next, same as any free tool on the site.