Electronic signature in about 100 documents at a single blow?

In our company we are not using Acrobat yet (except the reader), but thinking of buying it as we need to implement electronic signature for future processes. Now I need to know if it is possible to sign a large amount of documents electronically in one go e.g. maybe by using actions? Or is it necessary to open each single document to sign it.
The thing is we create measurement reports and some orders include up to 150 parts. For each part a seperate measurement report will be created which needs to be signed. If our technician has to open each report to sign it, it'll take him at least an hour to get all the refering documents signed.
Any idea to get this done efficiently?
THX.

It's possible to automate the process. You can use a batch process (aka Action) that adds a digital signature field to each document in a collection and then signs it. The JavaScript methods you'd use include doc.addField and field.signatureSign:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.435.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/JS_API_AcroJS.88.758.html

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