Batch import of photo information

Is there any way to import information about a batch of photos from (say) an Excel file?  I am thinking about Title, Date, and Description in particular.
This is what I want to do.  I am about to scan my 2000+ slide photos into iPhoto using a simple (but fairly quick) photo scanner.  As I scan slides, they go sequentially onto a memory card.  When I have scanned a good number, I upload the comntents of the memory card into iphoto, erase the card, and go back to scan some more.
Each slide I am scanning has a title and date written on the slide mount.  In order to avoid handling each slide more than once, I would like to type these details into (say) Excel, as I scan the corresponding slide.  Then after uploading the slides, I would upload the information, ensure that it corresponds properly, and Presto! - slides all titled and dated with the minimum of effort.
If I can't do this, then I would have to add titles and dates as a second operation, which would involve handling the slide a second time, and peering at it to ensure I have the right one.  At least a doubling of the time taken to accomplish the task.
I am using iPhoto 11 and Snow Leopard.
Thoughts, anyone?
Thanks.

Not with iPhoto, no.
I see a couple of problems with your idea. One, does your scanner create an Exif and IPTC metadata space on the file? If so, you coould possibly create a script to add the data using one of the tools here
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=batch+edit+exif+mac&ie=UTF-8 &oe=UTF-8
You would do this before importing to iPhoto.
If no, then I can't see a way to do what you want.
Regards
TD

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    Have a look at this discussion - iPhoto Upgrade and Library Issue
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    Joe

    Thank you for the information, it helped some maybe you can help me out, I want to back up 5000 photos to dvd so I have a hard copy of them. Last week end I went through the export as originals and burned them to dvd. My problem is I have about 500 photos that have the same file name (the one given by the camera) and when I go to export them into a burn folder it says do I want to replace the photos already in the burn folder. So I am missing some pics. I thought I was double selecting the photos but I found one of the file names and did a search an 2 different photos showed up. I was hoping with batch rename the file names so this wouldn't happen.
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  • Import // rename photos

    does anybody know
    how can I replace about 2000 photos in indesign without having to import and rename the photos?
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    I got that.. is just an endless procedure to re-link each image...as well as rebuilding from scratch (with bridge contact sheet)
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    --- Στις Τετ., 06/05/09, ο/η Eugene Tyson <[email protected]> έγραψε:
    Από: Eugene Tyson <[email protected]>
    Θέμα: import // rename photos
    Προς: "ioanna antoniadi" <[email protected]>
    Ημερομηνία: Τετάρτη, 6 Μάιος 2009, 15:41
    You basically have to tell indesign what image you want to link to. If you say that you want to link to a.tiff and then you want to change the image to b.tiff you have to Relink the image. As all indesign sees is a path to the file, i.e., c:\mydocuments\eugene\images\a.tiff
    InDesign has no way of reading your mind and inserting the b.tiff instead.
    The only other way to do it is to rename b.tiff to be a.tiff
    Or if you export the file to a .inx file and open the file in a text editor, like notepad or something, and then find the reference to a.tiff and replace it with b.tiff.
    But you don't want to do that.
    What I'd do is load up my cursor with all the images I wanted to place and go to each image and just click on it to insert the new image.
    or
    I'd select the images in the links panel (Window>Links) and choose Relink, and then when prompted to relink A.tiff I'd choose b.tiff, and when prompted for the next image I'd select the new image I wanted to place.
    But InDesign won't be able to read your mind, you have to tell it what image you want to replace the other image.

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