Compress PDF

Hi Experts,
We have loaded very large PDF files which has images in it to our production oracle database, but where in which we supposed to upload only 8MB files. when the files goes beyond 8MB we suppose to compress using adobe professional and them load it.
Now, We are in the position to compress the loaded files(nearly 1800 fiels) is in database.
We tried to compress with oracle utility called UTL_COMPRESS, it was not worked effectively, moreover it uses its own compression algorith and hence Adobe unable to read the compressed files.
is there any way to archive the PDF (CLOB) which is in oracle database.
Cheers,
Salai

Acrobat is not technically suited nor licensed for server use.
Adobe's PDF Library might offer methods to compress,I think it has an API to the PDF optimizer.

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