I’m scanning some old family photos (many hundreds). Some of these have writing on the back of where and who is in the photo. I can use gimp to add borders and the text, but with maybe 2-300 it would be nice to have a more efficient way to add the text and border.
I’m thinking of something like this. (edit: for some reason I can’t upload the picture)
I’m a nerd, I’d use Annotating -- IM v6 Examples 
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If you want to stick with GIMP, try BIMP. Inkscape is a possibility for batch processing using templates, though colour management may be more challenging.
PS Try uploading now. It should work.
That’s perfect, thanks johnny-bit!
montage -label “Nan at New Barns” nan1.jpg -font Caveat -pointsize 72 -geometry +20+20 nan1b.jpg
Using Gimp. An old script kym-border from GitHub - mkyral/LineBorder: The python script for Gimp to create an border around the image
Looks like this. (If I had 100’s to process, I would edit the script to set preferred sizes etc as default)
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