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<canvas /> and print screen/screenshot

Is there any way to print screen and get the clipboard data into an element?

In other words, is there a way to read print screened clipboard data (pixels, probably) with javascript?

Or once again this is the case where cannot get such data?

If any of the questions has the answer value of yes, I'd like to know a bit more details.

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Looks like there is a way, it's Chrome only, but it works flawlessly.

    http://strd6.com/2011/09/html5-javascript-pasting-image-data-in-chrome/

    I hope it's only a matter of time until other browsers implement similar features, but yeah, there is a way. Plus, this could be tweaked to do almost anything.