How to mark certain areas/fields for redaction and apply redaction programmatically?

[tarekahf]

I know you can use Acrobat to mark areas for redaction, and apply redaction.

I wanted to know if this process can be automated.

For example, we know the areas/fields to be redacted, and we want to mark such areas using Adobe LiveCycle Designer. Then, when it is time, we want to apply redaction using server utilities. We want this process to be completely automated.

Is that possible and how?

Thank you,

Tarek