Photo indexing software

I have a number of photos I'd like to put on a CD with an alphabetic
index of the people shown (so there may be several entries for one
photo) along with thumbnails of the photos containing the person
referenced, so that clicking the thumbnail would bring up a full
screen (big, anyway) picture.
I'd like to be able to distribute copies without a licensing problem.

Is anything like that available?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Ron...

I am just getting into this myself.
Metadata in photos can be used to store data about the subject
EXIF IPTC and XMP are types metadata.
EXIF is for camera settings and comes from the digital camera
IPTC contains various editable fields such as Caption and Keywords
XMP is an adobe method

I have recently downloaded some products that enable IPTC data input and
it can be used to create descrriptions on web pages etc
I have been reading that csv data be created and also be loaded into
spreadsheets etc which may fit your need

I can see these products creating web pages with captions etc
but have not yet tested a slideshow on CD

This is a windows shell - simply open properties on JPG and can add
captions - and all this is lossless to a JPG

enable the install - both are windows shell programs
Pixvue does a lot more - and allows Annotate on JPG and TIF - the other
programs just handle JPG

Now when you have added IPTC etc you should find the items coming up in
say web-search desktop searches

and you tell it to pick up the IPTC data
Very fast and you can tune the css web templates
Another shell program - you click right on folder and select Porta
Pixvue does the web pages but is much slower

Psst all these programs are Free and I can understand them
and I have tried some demos of other products and I just could not
understand some of them plus they were slow and ponderous

I have put some methods I am using for scanning etc on my web page under
"Dating photos"

tim sewell...

Gerry,

I think that "Archive Creator" would achieve just what you want, but not
exactly as you indicate.

To make Archive Creator work for your purpose, you would need to have
multiple copies of each photograph that contained more than one person, so
that you still maintained a one-to-one relationship between index entries
and photographs.