Specifications

5. Working with Hot folders
5.1 What are hot folders?
Hot folders defined
An Enfocus PitStop Server hot folder is actually a collection of dedicated folders for automated
PDF processing. You create these folders on the hard disk of your computer or on a network drive.
Enfocus PitStop Server automatically processes PDF documents that arrive in a given input folder
of this hot folder and places them in the output folder which you have specified. The original PDF
document and a process report can be placed in the same or a different folder, depending on
whether processing was successful or not.
The hot folder’s input folder is an active folder: Enfocus PitStop Server will monitor the input folder
of a hot folder at regular intervals and will, upon arrival of a PDF document in this input folder,
start the appropriate automatic action.
Hot folders are interlinked folders. You use the Hot Folder Editor to create the links between the
folders of a hot folder: You specify the path the PDF documents have to follow as they are processed.
Hot folder workflow illustrated
The illustration below shows a typical set-up of a hot folder and its workflow.
1. Enfocus PitStop Server detects incoming PDF documents in the input file folder and processes
them automatically.
2. Enfocus PitStop Server places the original PDF documents in a separate folder, depending on
the result after processing: folder 2 if processing was successful or folder 2’ if processing of
the PDF document returned errors.
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