Ah, that's what you meant by "(some number here)". The keys to the $info hash are tag keys, not tag names. The tag keys will contain a number if there is more than one tag extracted with the same name. To get the tag name, use "$tagName = Image::ExifTool::GetTagName($tagKey)" to return the tag name. Also, it looks like there is more than one IPTC record in the file you're using. You can set the Duplicates option value to 0 to avoid extracting duplicate tags: "$exifTool->Options(Duplicates=>0)".