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No, you can't directly copy images as pyperclip only supports str, int, float, bool types currently.

Reference: https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip/blob/master/src/pyperclip/__init__.py#L111

The fact that copy does not support binary data seems at odds with official documentation:
https://pypi.org/project/pyclip/

"Cross-platform clipboard utilities supporting both binary and text data."

Maybe the docs should be updated?

With xclip it is possiblie to copy binary data:

xclip -o -selection clipbobard -t image/png

I will take a look in the other commands soon

With xclip it is possiblie to copy binary data:

xclip -o -selection clipbobard -t image/png

I will take a look in the other commands soon

Is this command for Linux?

wl-paste -t <target>

With xclip it is possiblie to copy binary data:

xclip -o -selection clipbobard -t image/png

I will take a look in the other commands soon

Is this command for Linux?

If you need this behavior it's not hard to copy the function and set the target for image/png

def paste_xclip(primary=False, image=False):
    selection = "c"  # DEFAULT_SELECTION
    if primary:
        selection = "p" # PRIMARY_SELECTION
    command = ["xclip", "-selection", selection, "-o"]
    if image:
        command += ["-t", "image/png"]  # Pass mime as argument?
    p = subprocess.Popen(
        command,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
        close_fds=True,
    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
    # Intentionally ignore extraneous output on stderr when clipboard is empty
    if not image:
        return stdout.decode("utf-8")
    else:
        return stdout