diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
index 5494b96a43eb7..23eb6fcd5808a 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/components/rich-text/use-paste-handler.js
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
  */
 import { useRef } from '@wordpress/element';
 import { useRefEffect } from '@wordpress/compose';
-import { getFilesFromDataTransfer } from '@wordpress/dom';
 import {
 	pasteHandler,
 	findTransform,
@@ -17,7 +16,7 @@ import { isURL } from '@wordpress/url';
  */
 import { addActiveFormats, isShortcode } from './utils';
 import { splitValue } from './split-value';
-import { shouldDismissPastedFiles } from '../../utils/pasting';
+import { getPasteEventData } from '../../utils/pasting';
 
 /** @typedef {import('@wordpress/rich-text').RichTextValue} RichTextValue */
 
@@ -44,33 +43,7 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			const { clipboardData } = event;
-
-			let plainText = '';
-			let html = '';
-
-			// IE11 only supports `Text` as an argument for `getData` and will
-			// otherwise throw an invalid argument error, so we try the standard
-			// arguments first, then fallback to `Text` if they fail.
-			try {
-				plainText = clipboardData.getData( 'text/plain' );
-				html = clipboardData.getData( 'text/html' );
-			} catch ( error1 ) {
-				try {
-					html = clipboardData.getData( 'Text' );
-				} catch ( error2 ) {
-					// Some browsers like UC Browser paste plain text by default and
-					// don't support clipboardData at all, so allow default
-					// behaviour.
-					return;
-				}
-			}
-
-			// Remove Windows-specific metadata appended within copied HTML text.
-			html = removeWindowsFragments( html );
-
-			// Strip meta tag.
-			html = removeCharsetMetaTag( html );
+			const { plainText, html, files } = getPasteEventData( event );
 
 			event.preventDefault();
 
@@ -103,8 +76,8 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 				return;
 			}
 
-			const files = [ ...getFilesFromDataTransfer( clipboardData ) ];
-			const isInternal = clipboardData.getData( 'rich-text' ) === 'true';
+			const isInternal =
+				event.clipboardData.getData( 'rich-text' ) === 'true';
 
 			// If the data comes from a rich text instance, we can directly use it
 			// without filtering the data. The filters are only meant for externally
@@ -128,17 +101,7 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 				// Allows us to ask for this information when we get a report.
 				// eslint-disable-next-line no-console
 				window.console.log( 'Received items:\n\n', files );
-			}
 
-			// Process any attached files, unless we infer that the files in
-			// question are redundant "screenshots" of the actual HTML payload,
-			// as created by certain office-type programs.
-			//
-			// @see shouldDismissPastedFiles
-			if (
-				files?.length &&
-				! shouldDismissPastedFiles( files, html, plainText )
-			) {
 				const fromTransforms = getBlockTransforms( 'from' );
 				const blocks = files
 					.reduce( ( accumulator, file ) => {
@@ -228,48 +191,3 @@ export function usePasteHandler( props ) {
 		};
 	}, [] );
 }
-
-/**
- * Normalizes a given string of HTML to remove the Windows-specific "Fragment"
- * comments and any preceding and trailing content.
- *
- * @param {string} html the html to be normalized
- * @return {string} the normalized html
- */
-function removeWindowsFragments( html ) {
-	const startStr = '<!--StartFragment-->';
-	const startIdx = html.indexOf( startStr );
-	if ( startIdx > -1 ) {
-		html = html.substring( startIdx + startStr.length );
-	} else {
-		// No point looking for EndFragment
-		return html;
-	}
-
-	const endStr = '<!--EndFragment-->';
-	const endIdx = html.indexOf( endStr );
-	if ( endIdx > -1 ) {
-		html = html.substring( 0, endIdx );
-	}
-
-	return html;
-}
-
-/**
- * Removes the charset meta tag inserted by Chromium.
- * See:
- * - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33585
- * - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1264616#c4
- *
- * @param {string} html the html to be stripped of the meta tag.
- * @return {string} the cleaned html
- */
-function removeCharsetMetaTag( html ) {
-	const metaTag = `<meta charset='utf-8'>`;
-
-	if ( html.startsWith( metaTag ) ) {
-		return html.slice( metaTag.length );
-	}
-
-	return html;
-}
diff --git a/packages/block-editor/src/utils/pasting.js b/packages/block-editor/src/utils/pasting.js
index e962e11050a1d..f9612aad20f14 100644
--- a/packages/block-editor/src/utils/pasting.js
+++ b/packages/block-editor/src/utils/pasting.js
@@ -3,6 +3,51 @@
  */
 import { getFilesFromDataTransfer } from '@wordpress/dom';
 
+/**
+ * Normalizes a given string of HTML to remove the Windows-specific "Fragment"
+ * comments and any preceding and trailing content.
+ *
+ * @param {string} html the html to be normalized
+ * @return {string} the normalized html
+ */
+function removeWindowsFragments( html ) {
+	const startStr = '<!--StartFragment-->';
+	const startIdx = html.indexOf( startStr );
+	if ( startIdx > -1 ) {
+		html = html.substring( startIdx + startStr.length );
+	} else {
+		// No point looking for EndFragment
+		return html;
+	}
+
+	const endStr = '<!--EndFragment-->';
+	const endIdx = html.indexOf( endStr );
+	if ( endIdx > -1 ) {
+		html = html.substring( 0, endIdx );
+	}
+
+	return html;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Removes the charset meta tag inserted by Chromium.
+ * See:
+ * - https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33585
+ * - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1264616#c4
+ *
+ * @param {string} html the html to be stripped of the meta tag.
+ * @return {string} the cleaned html
+ */
+function removeCharsetMetaTag( html ) {
+	const metaTag = `<meta charset='utf-8'>`;
+
+	if ( html.startsWith( metaTag ) ) {
+		return html.slice( metaTag.length );
+	}
+
+	return html;
+}
+
 export function getPasteEventData( { clipboardData } ) {
 	let plainText = '';
 	let html = '';
@@ -24,6 +69,12 @@ export function getPasteEventData( { clipboardData } ) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Remove Windows-specific metadata appended within copied HTML text.
+	html = removeWindowsFragments( html );
+
+	// Strip meta tag.
+	html = removeCharsetMetaTag( html );
+
 	const files = getFilesFromDataTransfer( clipboardData );
 
 	if (