Howto find PDFs with scanned content - not OCR'rd

I have several thousand PDFs, where most of them are normal PDFs.
But some of them contain just scanned images of a document, and they are not OCR docs, or even of a quality where OCR is possible.
I want so find these documents, separate them for the real PDFs so to speak. Is this possible ? Are there any tag or information in the PDF that says "Image file and nothing else!" :)
Thank you.
Regards Alexander

I'll take the font check as an example.
> In Acrobat 8 Pro go to advanced>preflight
> Click on edit
> click on the plus icon below the list on the left hand side to add a new custom profile
> give it a name and fill out the details as you like and save it for now
> the new profile is now available in the list on the left hand side of the preflight dialog box
> here click on custom check, click on the plus icon (the middle one from the three available, the tooltip should say: 'create new check and include it in the current profile')
> From the group box select font
> in the property box select font type
> The info box will show the 7 types of font available
> Where it says 'begins with' select 'is contained in list'
> click on Add to list and add all available font types to the list
> click ok and then save
This profile will check if a listed font type is part of the document. if it is it will give an error (as indicated by a red cross in front of the custom check) Since it lists all available font types any document containing fonts will get an error when preflight is run on them.
test the profile on a scanned document (containing no fonts thus no error) and a normal pdf (Containing fonts thus getting an error).

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