Helix Search Documentation | 2025.1

# Licensed features

This section describes the licensed features of Helix Search.

To use the full indexing capabilities of Helix Search, you must obtain a Helix DAM capability in your Perforce license. To buy or renew licenses, contact Sales.

Here is a comparison of capabilities between a licensed and unlicensed Helix Search service:

Capability | Without Helix DAM license | With Helix DAM license
--- | --- | ---
File indexing | Yes | Yes
Thumbnail/Preview generation | No | Yes
Image recognition tagging | No | Yes
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | No | Yes
Handwriting recognition | No | Yes
Speech-to-text recognition | No | Yes
EXIF data and geolocation | No | Yes

## Viewing license information

To check the license details of your Helix Search service:

1. Log in to your Helix Search web UI.

2. Select Account arrow from the top navigation bar.

3. Select Status.

   The Helix Search Service status page displays the license information.

Alternatively, you can run the following command on your Helix Core command-line interface:

p4 license -o

Look for the following in the output:

ExtraCapabilities: helix-dam licenseExpires=1741788773 designers=20…

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