Converting Photo Gallery face tags to Lightroom face tags

[dvaksvik]

I have several thousand photos managed in Microsoft Live Photo Gallery. However, Microsoft will stop supporting this application in January 2017, so I am considering starting to use Adobe Lightroom instead. How can I copy the face tags from all the photos (JPG) in Photo Gallery (XMP-MP) to Lightroom (XMP-mwg-rs)?

[StarGeek]

Download the main distribution from the main page, where is says "Download Version 10.33 (4.0 MB)".  In that archive, under configs, you'll find "convert_regions.config".   

Your command would be:
exiftool -config convert_regions.config "-regioninfo<myregion" FileOrDir

At least, I think that's the command, it's been a while since I've used it.  See this thread for more info.

[Phil Harvey]

I just had a thought to make it easier to get a single file from the full distribution.  You can click on the "Download this file" link on the SourceForge page for this file.

- Phil

[dvaksvik]

Thanks for the help. I am not really a coder/Developer, but I managed to create a CMD file that can do the job.

If this could have been integrated with the ExifToolGUI and been done more user friendly so non computer literate users could also do it, I am sure it would be a big hit.

Dagfinn