diff --git a/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java b/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
index e9a77927..6c7bb504 100644
--- a/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
+++ b/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@
 public class InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor implements
     FilterInfixOperationProcessor<FilterExpressionTransformer, Expression<?>> {
 
+  private final LikeOperationExpressionProcessor likeOperationExpressionProcessor;
+
+  public InsensitiveLikeOperationExpressionProcessor(
+      LikeOperationExpressionProcessor likeOperationExpressionProcessor) {
+    this.likeOperationExpressionProcessor = likeOperationExpressionProcessor;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public Class<FilterExpressionTransformer> getTransformerType() {
     return FilterExpressionTransformer.class;
@@ -30,7 +37,8 @@ public Expression<?> process(FilterExpressionTransformer transformer, InfixOpera
         .like(transformer.getCriteriaBuilder()
                 .upper((Expression<String>) transformer.transform(source.getLeft())),
             transformer.getCriteriaBuilder()
-                .upper((Expression<String>) transformer.transform(source.getRight())));
+                .upper(likeOperationExpressionProcessor.getLikePatternExpression(transformer,
+                    source.getRight())));
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/LikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java b/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/LikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
index c4485cda..c0fd4d0d 100644
--- a/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/LikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
+++ b/jpa/src/main/java/com/turkraft/springfilter/transformer/processor/LikeOperationExpressionProcessor.java
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 package com.turkraft.springfilter.transformer.processor;
 
 import com.turkraft.springfilter.language.LikeOperator;
+import com.turkraft.springfilter.parser.node.FilterNode;
 import com.turkraft.springfilter.parser.node.InfixOperationNode;
+import com.turkraft.springfilter.parser.node.InputNode;
 import com.turkraft.springfilter.transformer.FilterExpressionTransformer;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.Expression;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
+/**
+ * Note: the behavior of this operation might differ between different SQL dialects.
+ */
 @Component
 public class LikeOperationExpressionProcessor implements
     FilterInfixOperationProcessor<FilterExpressionTransformer, Expression<?>> {
@@ -28,7 +33,25 @@ public Expression<?> process(FilterExpressionTransformer transformer, InfixOpera
     transformer.registerTargetType(source.getRight(), String.class);
     return transformer.getCriteriaBuilder()
         .like((Expression<String>) transformer.transform(source.getLeft()),
-            (Expression<String>) transformer.transform(source.getRight()));
+            getLikePatternExpression(transformer, source.getRight()));
+  }
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  public Expression<String> getLikePatternExpression(FilterExpressionTransformer transformer,
+      FilterNode node) {
+
+    if (!(node instanceof InputNode)) {
+      return (Expression<String>) transformer.transform(node);
+    }
+
+    String pattern = ((InputNode) node).getValue().toString().replace("*", "%");
+
+    if (!pattern.contains("%")) {
+      pattern = "%" + pattern + "%";
+    }
+
+    return transformer.getCriteriaBuilder().literal(pattern);
+
   }
 
 }