upload picture to server from clipboard

Question

I was looking a long time for the solution, but I can not find any. Is there any possibility to upload picture from clipboard to file on server (by pressing ctrl+v) ? It could w

Answer 1

You can try:

https://github.com/layerssss/paste.js

Or

On paste event and clipboard API

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onpaste.asp

https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/

How does the paste image from clipboard functionality work in Gmail and Google Chrome 12+?

After you get image in javascript you can send base64 encoded image to server with AJAX. At server-side, you can decode it and write to a file.

Note: This works if you copy image inside browser (from other tab or window). It doesn't work when you copy image from desktop.