Improve ImageGrab.grabclipboard() on Windows by nulano · Pull Request #4615 · python-pillow/Pillow
Helps #4611
Adds support for the following clipboard formats on Windows in addition to the already supported CF_DIB:
CF_DIBV5'PNG'used by e.g. MS Word 2016 and Paint.NET,CF_HDROPused by most browsers (except Chrome), file explorers, etc.
Support for CF_HDROP was already hinted at in the documentation, but there was merely a FIXME in place of the code.
Used format is selected out of available formats based on the priority specified by the clipboard owner.
While I could see the argument that CF_HDROP is more complicated and should therefore only be a fallback, based on my testing, it is almost always the preferred format, and preserves the original image data (e.g. transparency, tags, ...), unlike bitmaps.