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P4 Search Documentation | 2025.2

# Licensed features

This section describes the licensed features of P4 Search.

To use the full indexing capabilities of P4 Search, you must obtain a P4 DAM capability in your Perforce license. To buy or renew licenses, contact Sales.

Here is a comparison of capabilities between a licensed and unlicensed P4 Search service:

Capability | Without P4 DAM license | With P4 DAM license
--- | --- | ---
File indexing. See Index P4 Server | Yes | Yes
File preview generation. See Thumbnail/Preview generation | No | Yes
Image recognition tagging. See Configure auto-tagging of images | No | Yes
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). See Configure image OCR | No | Yes
Handwriting recognition. See content in the ContentModel data model | No | Yes
Speech-to-text recognition. See Configure speech-to-text recognition | No | Yes
EXIF data and geolocation. See GpsModel | No | Yes

## Viewing license information

To check the license details of your P4 Search service:

1. Log in to your P4 Search web UI.

2. Select Account arrow from the top navigation bar.

3. Select Status.

   The P4 Search Service status page displays the license information.

Alternatively, you can run the following command on your P4 command-line interface:

p4 license -o

Look for the following in the output:

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

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