Adding EXIF shoot date to scanned images

Hi
I have a bunch of scanned images from the analog times.
I am looking for a tool to easily add EXIF shoot date information to these scanned images (batch mode) so that LR shows them correctly and easier work with.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Franz

LR has a command, Metadata > Edit Capture Time, that will make batch changes to the capture time ("shoot time") of one or more images. But it has two significant problems when used with scanned images:
- In LR 3.4, it will silently overwrite any existing Date Time Digitized, permanently losing that metadata.
- It can't change a batch of images to the exact same time -- rather, the command adds an offset to the existing times of all the images (and LR uses the file's modification time in the case of scans with no existing capture time).
Instead, you might consider the CaptureTime To Exif plugin:
http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/new-lightroom-plug-in-capturetime-to-exif/

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