In chrome, using the window.Clipboard object, is there a way to capture pasted text?

In the code you linked there is a pasteHandler function with the following:

// Get the items from the clipboard        var items = e.clipboardData.items;        if (items) {            // Loop through all items, looking for any kind of image            for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {                if (items[i].type.indexOf("image") !== -1) {                    // We need to represent the image as a file,                    var blob = items[i].getAsFile();                    // and use a URL or webkitURL (whichever is available to the browser)                    // to create a temporary URL to the object                    var URLObj = window.URL || window.webkitURL;                    var source = URLObj.createObjectURL(blob);                    // The URL can then be used as the source of an image                    createImage(source);                }            }        }

Chrome developer frame is telling me that items[i] is a DataTransferItem (reference)

On the reference page I see a kind property and a getAsString() method. The latter seems to require a callback function that receives the text as a parameter. So to handle text values using the above script you might modify the section I linked as follows:

// Get the items from the clipboard        var items = e.clipboardData.items;        if (items) {            // Loop through all items, looking for any kind of image            for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {                if (items[i].type.indexOf("image") !== -1) {                    // We need to represent the image as a file,                    var blob = items[i].getAsFile();                    // and use a URL or webkitURL (whichever is available to the browser)                    // to create a temporary URL to the object                    var URLObj = window.URL || window.webkitURL;                    var source = URLObj.createObjectURL(blob);                    // The URL can then be used as the source of an image                    createImage(source);                }                 if (items[i].kind === "string"){                    items[i].getAsString(function(s) {                        alert(s);                    });                }            }        }