Transfer Captions, other metadata to iPhoto from Microsoft Digital Imaging

My dad has all of his photos in Microsoft Digital Imaging Suite and he is trying to get all of the captions (metadata?) transferred over to iPhoto. Is there some way of doing this???

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Does this suite write this data to the IPTC tags on the pics? If so, then get it to do that and that should work.
Regards
TD

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