diff --git a/ui/pageview.cpp b/ui/pageview.cpp
--- a/ui/pageview.cpp
+++ b/ui/pageview.cpp
@@ -3263,6 +3263,7 @@
 
     if ( e->button() == Qt::LeftButton )
     {
+        // Below code selects the word on mouse double click event
         const QPoint eventPos = contentAreaPoint( e->pos() );
         PageViewItem * pageItem = pickItemOnPoint( eventPos.x(), eventPos.y() );
         if ( pageItem )
@@ -3304,6 +3305,40 @@
                 openAnnotationWindow( ann, pageItem->pageNumber() );
             }
         }
+        
+        // The code below selects the entire page and copies the text to a clipboard if position of double mouse click event is empty portion and mode is Text Select 
+        if (d->mouseMode == Okular::Settings::EnumMouseMode::TextSelect) 
+        {
+            textSelectionClear();
+            //add block to select (visually) the current page
+            const int currentPage = d->document->viewport().pageNumber;
+            PageViewItem *item = d->items.at( currentPage );
+            
+            if (item)
+            {    
+                Okular::RegularAreaRect * area = textSelectionForItem( item );
+                const QString text = item->page()->text( area );
+                d->pagesWithTextSelection.insert( currentPage );
+                d->document->setPageTextSelection( currentPage, area, palette().color( QPalette::Active, QPalette::Highlight ) );
+                //d->pagesWithTextSelection << currentPage;
+                
+                if ( d->document->isAllowed( Okular::AllowCopy ) ) 
+                {
+                    //const QString text = d->selectedText();
+                    if ( !text.isEmpty() ) 
+                    {    
+                        QClipboard *cb = QApplication::clipboard();
+                                if ( cb->supportsSelection() )
+                                {
+                                    cb->setText( text, QClipboard::Selection );
+                                }
+                        
+                    }
+                    return;
+                }
+                delete area;
+            }
+        }
     }
 }