Redaction Software Recommendations?

I am working with a client that needs documents stored as TIF files
redacted. It should be automated where we put a file in a monitored
directory and it redacts and spits out the redacted image to another. No
manual redaction needed.

I have two other clients that use a PC based software for this. We move
files from the IFS to a shared directory where it is redacted. We monitor
another directory for the finished redacted image and then use that to
display, convert to PDF, etc. This application works well, but because
it's on a PC server it is a bottleneck.

This new client got a quote from the same place the other two did and of
course their jaw dropped to the floor when they saw it and asked if I could
help find another solution.

I recall in the past searching for IBM i based solutions and they of course
were 100x more expensive than the PC versions (but I'm sure they were a lot
faster.. the PC versions really make a bottleneck when the system is in
heavy use).

Along with redaction it would be nice if we could do other things, like
make the document a JPG instead of a TIFF once it's done. That makes
things easier for the web displays.

Thanks!

Brad
www.bvstools.com