Possible: Exporting Lightroom JPEGs without recompression?

I am a new user of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I am using it to manage a library of around 600 photos I received as JPEGs from a photographer. I am annotating each photo with keywords. Now, I would like to export these, with the keywords embedded in each JPEG file, which the Export command does. However, I would like to do so in a way that doesn't let Lightroom re-compress the images to new JPEGs.
I found that, if I choose a quality of 100, Lightroom re-encodes all images with minimal compression, blowing up the file size over the originals, instead of simply makes copies of the originals without re-encoding. All I want to have is a collection of all image files with the keywords in each file, instead of only in Lightroom's database.
Dominik Hoffmann

I myself am on Mac OS X. Files managed by Lightroom that had their metadata embedded in XMP format do not reveal this information when brought into iPhoto. However, I found the $15 utility called PictureSync
intended for uploading whole libraries of images to Flickr etc., which can also do a directory-to-directory "export" or "upload," where XMP keywords are turned into, what I guess are IPTC tags. When imported into iPhoto after that step, the keywords are all there. I haven't checked into other bits of XMP metadata, but the keywords are all I need for the time being.
Thank you all very much for your contribution to this discussion!
Dominik Hoffmann

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It is completely stupid to be obliged to work in 1:1 mode for developing photos as this is the only option from what I read.
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>The guy I'm referring too is here. Supposedly istock doesn't allow people to forcefully push a file past it's original quality, but at the same time I've never heard of a camera taking 13200 x 10200 size shots.
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