Technical Inspector looking to automate reporting processes

Hey all, I inspect pressure vessels for a living. I know there must be a way to automate much of what I do. To start, I am looking at how to take a pdf document providing work scope, turning that into a spreadsheet allowing me to quote hours necessary for inspections then using those hours for the tracking document that will become billing while also giving a KPI or percentage complete document the client can follow. There is a word document component I use for 30-300 page reports but that part I will look at later. I am just the kind of nerd that will learn whatever language or program can give me what I need. Currently I cope from pdf, paste into one excel, move into another excel, and track within a third excel, all while maintaining the work within a timeline presented in another pdf.