in reply to PERL, Win32::OLE - Lotus Notes and passing objects

I'd start by checking what is in that hash ref. Have you tried putting in some diagnostic code such as:
foreach (keys %{ $embeddedDoc }) { print "$_ = $embeddedDoc->{$_}\n"; }
This will show you what's in that hash, and perhaps point you to the data you want.

Cheers,
Shendal