Turn a PDF into an editable Word document. The conversion runs through LibreOffice on the server, which reconstructs paragraphs, headings and tables from the positioned text in the PDF. Simple, text-led documents convert well. Anything with a heavy visual layout - multi-column newsletters, forms, brochures - will need tidying afterwards, because the original paragraph structure is not stored in a PDF and has to be inferred.
Yes - real text in real paragraphs, not a picture of the page. How closely the layout matches depends on the source document.
A scan contains images, not text, so there was nothing to extract. Run OCR PDF first and then convert.
PDFs rarely mark up a table as a table - it is usually just text positioned in a grid, plus separate lines drawn around it. The converter has to infer the structure, and dense or borderless tables are where it most often gets it wrong.
If the font is available it is used. Otherwise a metrically similar substitute is chosen, which can shift line breaks slightly.
Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection and processed on CoonTool's own server, not in your browser. The working copy is deleted automatically once the job is done, and in any case within 24 hours. Nothing is stored permanently and no account is required.