diff --git a/docs/pages/deployment/pex.rst b/docs/pages/deployment/pex.rst
index ba2b2314a..4efa271d5 100644
--- a/docs/pages/deployment/pex.rst
+++ b/docs/pages/deployment/pex.rst
@@ -95,3 +95,32 @@ Writer of policies should take into consideration:
 - fields that are intended to be used for logging or authorization decisions should have a distinct identifier.
 - claims ideally map a registered claim name (e.g. `IANA JWT claims <https://www.iana.org/assignments/jwt/jwt.xhtml#claims>`_)
 - overwriting properties already defined in the token introspection endpoint response is forbidden. These are: ``iss``, ``sub``, ``exp``, ``iat``, ``active``, ``client_id``, ``scope``.
+
+Extracting substrings with regular expressions
+==============================================
+If you want introspection to return part of a string, you can use the ``pattern`` regular expression filter in the field definition with a capture group.
+Token introspection will return the value of the capture group in the regular expression, instead of the whole field value.
+For instance, if you want to extract the level from the string ``"Admin level 4"`` from the following credential:
+
+.. code-block:: json
+
+  {
+    "credentialSubject": {
+      "role": "Admin level 4"
+    }
+  }
+
+You can define the following field in the input descriptor constraint, to have the level returned in the introspection response as ``admin_level``:
+
+.. code-block:: json
+
+  {
+    "id": "admin_level",
+    "path": ["$.credentialSubject.role"],
+    "filter": {
+      "type": "string"
+      "pattern": "Admin level ([0-9])"
+    }
+  }
+
+Only 1 capture group is supported in regular expressions. If multiple capture groups are defined, an error will be returned.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vcr/pe/presentation_definition.go b/vcr/pe/presentation_definition.go
index b3b27bfe3..df41b6907 100644
--- a/vcr/pe/presentation_definition.go
+++ b/vcr/pe/presentation_definition.go
@@ -435,12 +435,12 @@ func matchField(field Field, credential map[string]interface{}) (bool, interface
 		}
 
 		// if filter at path matches return true
-		match, err := matchFilter(*field.Filter, value)
+		match, matchedValue, err := matchFilter(*field.Filter, value)
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, nil, err
 		}
 		if match {
-			return true, value, nil
+			return true, matchedValue, nil
 		}
 		// if filter at path does not match continue and set optionalInvalid
 		optionalInvalid++
@@ -466,14 +466,17 @@ func getValueAtPath(path string, vcAsInterface interface{}) (interface{}, error)
 	return value, err
 }
 
-// matchFilter matches the value against the filter.
+// matchFilter matches the value against the filter. It returns true if the value matches the filter, along with the matched value.
 // A filter is a JSON Schema descriptor (https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-validation.html#name-a-vocabulary-for-structural)
 // Supported schema types: string, number, boolean, array, enum.
 // Supported schema properties: const, enum, pattern. These only work for strings.
 // Supported go value types: string, float64, int, bool and array.
 // 'null' values are not supported.
-// It returns an error on unsupported features or when the regex pattern fails.
-func matchFilter(filter Filter, value interface{}) (bool, error) {
+// It returns an error when;
+// - an unsupported feature is used
+// - the regex pattern fails
+// - the regex pattern contains more than 1 capture group
+func matchFilter(filter Filter, value interface{}) (bool, interface{}, error) {
 	// first we check if it's an enum, so we can recursively call matchFilter for each value
 	if filter.Enum != nil {
 		for _, enum := range filter.Enum {
@@ -481,62 +484,79 @@ func matchFilter(filter Filter, value interface{}) (bool, error) {
 				Type:  "string",
 				Const: &enum,
 			}
-			match, _ := matchFilter(f, value)
+			match, result, _ := matchFilter(f, value)
 			if match {
-				return true, nil
+				return true, result, nil
 			}
 		}
-		return false, nil
+		return false, nil, nil
 	}
 
 	switch typedValue := value.(type) {
 	case string:
 		if filter.Type != "string" {
-			return false, nil
+			return false, nil, nil
 		}
 	case float64:
 		if filter.Type != "number" {
-			return false, nil
+			return false, nil, nil
 		}
 	case int:
 		if filter.Type != "number" {
-			return false, nil
+			return false, nil, nil
 		}
 	case bool:
 		if filter.Type != "boolean" {
-			return false, nil
+			return false, nil, nil
 		}
 	case []interface{}:
 		for _, v := range typedValue {
-			match, err := matchFilter(filter, v)
+			match, _, err := matchFilter(filter, v)
 			if err != nil {
-				return false, err
+				return false, nil, err
 			}
 			if match {
-				return true, nil
+				return true, value, nil
 			}
 		}
 	default:
 		// object not supported for now
-		return false, ErrUnsupportedFilter
+		return false, nil, ErrUnsupportedFilter
 	}
 
 	if filter.Const != nil {
 		if value != *filter.Const {
-			return false, nil
+			return false, nil, nil
 		}
 	}
 
 	if filter.Pattern != nil && filter.Type == "string" {
 		re, err := regexp2.Compile(*filter.Pattern, regexp2.ECMAScript)
 		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
+			return false, nil, err
+		}
+		match, err := re.FindStringMatch(value.(string))
+		if err != nil {
+			return false, nil, err
+		}
+		if match == nil {
+			return false, nil, nil
+		}
+		// We support returning a single capture group;
+		// - If there's a capture group, return it
+		// - If there's no capture group, return the whole match
+		// - If there's multiple capture groups, return an error
+		if len(match.Groups()) == 1 {
+			return true, string(match.Capture.Runes()), nil
+		} else if len(match.Groups()) == 2 {
+			return true, string(match.Groups()[1].Runes()), nil
+		} else {
+			return false, nil, errors.New("can't return results from multiple regex capture groups")
 		}
-		return re.MatchString(value.(string))
 	}
 
 	// if we get here, no pattern, enum or const is requested just the type.
-	return true, nil
+	return true, value, nil
 }
 
 // deduplicate removes duplicate VCs from the slice.
diff --git a/vcr/pe/presentation_definition_test.go b/vcr/pe/presentation_definition_test.go
index b1570239e..902ad2dad 100644
--- a/vcr/pe/presentation_definition_test.go
+++ b/vcr/pe/presentation_definition_test.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"embed"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"github.com/nuts-foundation/go-did/did"
+	"github.com/nuts-foundation/nuts-node/core/to"
 	vcrTest "github.com/nuts-foundation/nuts-node/vcr/test"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -761,9 +762,12 @@ func Test_matchFilter(t *testing.T) {
 
 		for _, testCase := range testCases {
 			t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-				got, err := matchFilter(testCase.filter, testCase.value)
+				matches, matchedValue, err := matchFilter(testCase.filter, testCase.value)
 				require.NoError(t, err)
-				assert.Equal(t, testCase.want, got)
+				assert.Equal(t, testCase.want, matches)
+				if testCase.want && matches {
+					assert.Equal(t, testCase.value, matchedValue)
+				}
 			})
 		}
 	})
@@ -775,13 +779,46 @@ func Test_matchFilter(t *testing.T) {
 		filters := []Filter{f1, f2, f3}
 		t.Run("ok", func(t *testing.T) {
 			for _, filter := range filters {
-				match, err := matchFilter(filter, stringValue)
+				match, matchedValue, err := matchFilter(filter, stringValue)
 				require.NoError(t, err)
 				assert.True(t, match)
+				assert.Equal(t, stringValue, matchedValue)
 			}
 		})
+		t.Run("pattern", func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Run("no match", func(t *testing.T) {
+				match, value, err := matchFilter(Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: to.Ptr("[0-9]+")}, "value")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Nil(t, value)
+				assert.False(t, match)
+			})
+			t.Run("capture group", func(t *testing.T) {
+				match, value, err := matchFilter(Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: to.Ptr("v([a-z]+)e")}, "value")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Equal(t, "alu", value)
+				assert.True(t, match)
+			})
+			t.Run("no capture group", func(t *testing.T) {
+				match, value, err := matchFilter(Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: to.Ptr("value")}, "value")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Equal(t, "value", value)
+				assert.True(t, match)
+			})
+			t.Run("non-capturing group", func(t *testing.T) {
+				match, value, err := matchFilter(Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: to.Ptr("(?:val)ue")}, "value")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				assert.Equal(t, "value", value)
+				assert.True(t, match)
+			})
+			t.Run("too many capture groups", func(t *testing.T) {
+				match, value, err := matchFilter(Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: to.Ptr("(v)(a)lue")}, "value")
+				require.EqualError(t, err, "can't return results from multiple regex capture groups")
+				assert.False(t, match)
+				assert.Nil(t, value)
+			})
+		})
 		t.Run("enum value not found", func(t *testing.T) {
-			match, err := matchFilter(f2, "foo")
+			match, _, err := matchFilter(f2, "foo")
 			require.NoError(t, err)
 			assert.False(t, match)
 		})
@@ -790,17 +827,17 @@ func Test_matchFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Run("error cases", func(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Run("enum with wrong type", func(t *testing.T) {
 			f := Filter{Type: "object"}
-			match, err := matchFilter(f, struct{}{})
+			match, _, err := matchFilter(f, struct{}{})
 			assert.False(t, match)
 			assert.Equal(t, err, ErrUnsupportedFilter)
 		})
 		t.Run("incorrect regex", func(t *testing.T) {
 			pattern := "["
 			f := Filter{Type: "string", Pattern: &pattern}
-			match, err := matchFilter(f, stringValue)
+			match, _, err := matchFilter(f, stringValue)
 			assert.False(t, match)
 			assert.Error(t, err, "error parsing regexp: missing closing ]: `[`")
-			match, err = matchFilter(f, []interface{}{stringValue})
+			match, _, err = matchFilter(f, []interface{}{stringValue})
 			assert.False(t, match)
 			assert.Error(t, err, "error parsing regexp: missing closing ]: `[`")
 		})