About droplets and batch processing

If you routinely use the same preflight profile to inspect documents, you can use a droplet or a batch-processing command to process files.

A droplet in Preflight is a small application that runs a Preflight inspection on one or more PDFs that you drag onto the Droplet icon . You can save a droplet on the desktop or to another location on your computer.

Like droplets, batch processing inspects multiple files at once, separates successful files from problem files, and creates reports in designated locations. In addition, hot folders can convert multiple file types (JPEG, HTML, RTF, and so on) to PDF or to PDF/X using conversion settings you specify; inspect the files using specified profiles; and output them in any format Acrobat supports, including PDF and PostScript.

Note: If you are inspecting only files, you probably don’t need to save changes or save copies in output folders.