diff --git a/docs/src/sdp/api.rst b/docs/src/sdp/api.rst
index 23fa95aa..9582c885 100644
--- a/docs/src/sdp/api.rst
+++ b/docs/src/sdp/api.rst
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ Data modifications
    :annotation:
    :noindex:
 
+.. autodata:: sdp.processors.SearchRegex
+   :annotation:
+
 .. autodata:: sdp.processors.SubMakeLowercase
    :annotation:
 
diff --git a/sdp/processors/__init__.py b/sdp/processors/__init__.py
index 3dd04a4c..a04fa12c 100644
--- a/sdp/processors/__init__.py
+++ b/sdp/processors/__init__.py
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
     SubIfASRSubstitution,
     SubMakeLowercase,
     SubRegex,
+    SearchRegex,
     FfmpegConvert,
 )
 from sdp.processors.modify_manifest.data_to_dropbool import (
diff --git a/sdp/processors/modify_manifest/data_to_data.py b/sdp/processors/modify_manifest/data_to_data.py
index f2fb6011..cc2a3133 100644
--- a/sdp/processors/modify_manifest/data_to_data.py
+++ b/sdp/processors/modify_manifest/data_to_data.py
@@ -577,4 +577,52 @@ def finalize(self, metrics):
         total_counter_sorted = dict(sorted(total_counter.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True))
         for word, count in total_counter_sorted.items():
             logger.info(f"{word} {count}")
-        super().finalize(metrics)
\ No newline at end of file
+        
+        super().finalize(metrics)
+
+
+class SearchRegex(BaseParallelProcessor):
+    """Searches for patterns in the input string.
+
+    Args:
+        search_patterns (list[str]): List of search patterns.
+        text_key (str): Key in the data entry containing the text to search.
+        output_key (str): Key in the data entry to store the output value indicating if any pattern has been found.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        search_patterns: List[str],
+        text_key: str = "text",
+        output_key: str = "pattern_found",
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.search_patterns = search_patterns
+        self.text_key = text_key
+        self.output_key = output_key
+
+    def process_dataset_entry(self, data_entry) -> List:
+        """Searches for each pattern in the input text."""
+        search_results = {}
+
+        text_in = data_entry[self.text_key]
+        pattern_found = False
+
+        for pattern in self.search_patterns:
+            found = bool(re.search(pattern, text_in))
+            search_results[pattern] = found
+            if found:
+                pattern_found = True
+
+        data_entry[self.output_key] = pattern_found
+
+        return [DataEntry(data=data_entry, metrics=pattern_found)]
+
+    def finalize(self, metrics):
+        """Reports counts of how many data entries contained patterns."""
+        print(f"Samples amount which contain patterns: {sum(metrics)}")
+        print(f"Samples amount which don't contain patterns: {len(metrics) - sum(metrics)}")
+        
+        super().finalize(metrics)
+        
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_data_to_data.py b/tests/test_data_to_data.py
index 5bd75f47..260efdba 100644
--- a/tests/test_data_to_data.py
+++ b/tests/test_data_to_data.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     SubIfASRSubstitution,
     SubMakeLowercase,
     SubRegex,
+    SearchRegex
 )
 
 test_params_list = []
@@ -90,6 +91,16 @@
     ]
 )
 
+test_params_list.extend(
+    [
+        (
+            SearchRegex,
+            {"search_patterns": ["[^a-zA-Z\\s]+"]},
+            {"text": "Hola, bienvenido seas a este Canal de Ministerio Latino por Cristo."},
+            {"text": "Hola, bienvenido seas a este Canal de Ministerio Latino por Cristo.", "pattern_found": True},
+        ),
+    ]
+)
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("test_class,class_kwargs,test_input,expected_output", test_params_list, ids=str)
 def test_data_to_data(test_class, class_kwargs, test_input, expected_output):