Automator keeping JPG keyword tags and converting to PDF?

I scanned a bunch of documents and put them into iPhoto and meticulously tagged them.
Now I've decided I'd rather have them as PDFs so I can run OCR on them)
I do not want to lose my keywords.
I can export the images from iPhoto and preserve the keywords
the problem is... whether I use Acrobat Pro or Preview, there's no way to convert the JPGs to PDF and keep that embedded metadata.
How can I export from iPhoto and get my keywords put into the file's spotlight comments?
Some way with Automator?

A solution is now available thanks to me. I wrote the author of the Photoshop CS3 Automator Action Pack and upon my suggestion he has added a new Copy IPTC data to Spotlight Comments action.
Now you can use Photoshop and Automator to convert iPhoto exported JPGs with Keywords embedded in the IPTC field to PDF's with Spotlight comments.

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