Merge and remove duplicates

I would like to use a utility or 3rd party app to go through my two 90gb libraries of photos (iPhoto libraries) and merge them while also removing duplicates and potentially trimming it (the library was originally but in iPhoto 08 or 07, probably)
How can I merge these libraries and soft out duplicates? The majority of the libraries are identical contents FYI, but there might be a thousand unique.
Thanks experts!

If you have Aperture 3.3 or later and iPhoto 9.3 or later you can merge libraries with Aperture. You can then use one of the many duplicate finders to sort out the problem.
Otherwise the only way to merge Libraries while avoiding duplicates is with the paid ($20) version of iPhoto Library Manager

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