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…