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P4 Search Documentation | 2025.5

# Licensed features

P4 Search indexes file content, metadata, revision details, and change descriptions in P4 Server. To add additional features, such as preview generation and image auto-tagging, you must add P4 DAM to your Perforce license. To buy or renew licenses, contact the Sales Team at sales@perforce.com.

This table compares the capabilities of P4 Search service with and without a P4 DAM license:

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 image auto-tagging | No | Yes
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). See Configure image auto-OCR | No | Yes
Handwriting recognition. See content in the ContentModel data model | No | Yes
Speech-to-text recognition. See Configure automated speech-to-text | No | Yes
EXIF data and geolocation. See GpsModel | No | Yes

## View 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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