Joomla convert to business catalyst

Hello!
So I have inherited a fairly large Joomla site.
I am trying to port it over to a business catalyst site.
I haven't yet got the passwords, but I imagine I can export the data from Joomla, and then import into Business Catalyst.
What say all??
Has anyone had any experience / success / failures?
I am pretty sure I can do it, just based on web apps for content sections alone..
BUT I may not have thought it through..
Anyone??

The data itself isn't too crazy.
It appears to be HTML and some table data ..
So all i really need is to export each 'section' into a usable CSV file and create a nice simple webapp instead.
I just can't get the data out in a usable format..
So any help/tools/ideas.. would be great!
Thanks for your help TheBCMan
There should be existing apps for this if BC wants to get any business from the other CMS

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