PDF size and compression

Hello, I hope I'm not in the wrong forum for this. I am using a multi function printer/scanner to create multi page PDF's. Due to email server restrictions the PDF's cannot exceed 10 meg. For some reason this seems to hit when the PDF has scanned 30 pages and shows as a approx 7 meg in size.
I scan at 200 dpi which is the min res required for the recipients. The 30 page limit is a tough number to deal with as most scans need to be in the 150 page range. I had resigned myself to having to send 4-5 files to get each item across when I started receiving scans of 40-50 pages that only showed as approx 2 meg in size but showed as good if not better resolution.
Is there a compression utility or fix that can allow the high page count in a 2 - 3 meg file? These are scanned files and not generated word documents.
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Thank you all for your help, unfortunately, the files need to remain in pdf format.. and it is being put into PDF by a Samsung multi function machine. I do not have access to the specific software used by the machine, and although it does allow different formats, they do not seem to be the most efficient, from a size standpoint. I've tried to see if there were software upgrades, but without luck. I was hoping there might have been a fix or after market program that would tighten up the pdf, without changing to zip format.

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