Text description of photos

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Operational Pattern (Battle-Tested)

Here’s the pattern that scales cleanly:

1. Import photos → Lightroom writes baseline XMP
2. AI pipeline updates XMP using ExifTool
3. Back in Lightroom:
   1. Filter → “Has Keywords = False” (or similar)
   2. Select
   3. Read Metadata from File
4. Use Smart Collections to validate results

You can do this on 10 or 10,000 images.

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How You’ll Know It Worked

• Keywords appear instantly
• Keyword List count increments
• Smart Collections update
• No warning dialogs appear

If Lightroom shows a metadata conflict warning, stop and inspect the XMP—you’ve likely overwritten a block you shouldn’t have.