# How get image clipboard to PImage

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-get-image-clipboard-to-pimage/27129
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [January 17, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-get-image-clipboard-to-pimage/27129 "2021-01-17T03:07:13Z")
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### Author: ![molo32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@molo32](https://discourse.processing.org/u/molo32)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-get-image-clipboard-to-pimage/27129/1 "2021-01-17T03:07:13Z")

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I have this code to get an image from the clipboard when pressing imprt. but it returns Image how do I convert it to PImage?

```auto
 public Image getImageFromClipboard( )
{
  Transferable transferable = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().getContents(null);
  if (transferable != null && transferable.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.imageFlavor))
  {
    try
    {
      return ((Image) ( transferable.getTransferData(DataFlavor.imageFlavor)));
    }
    catch (UnsupportedFlavorException e)
    {
      // handle this as desired
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
      // handle this as desired
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
  else
  {
    System.err.println("getImageFromClipboard: That wasn't an image!");
  }
  return null;
}

```