diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 87b94c8d5..535505411 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+2008-05-27  m. allan noah <kitno455 a t gmail d o t com>
+	* frontend/scanimage.c: add %n for newline to -f option
+
 2008-05-26 Jonathan Bravo Lopez <jkdsoft@gmail.com>
-	* po/sane-backends.es.po: added spanish translation about status strings.
+	* po/sane-backends.es.po: added spanish translation about status strings
 	* po/Makefile.in: added backend/sane_strstatus.c to SRC_FILES section.
 
 2008-05-26  Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
diff --git a/doc/scanimage.man b/doc/scanimage.man
index 7eaa3cb90..685cf10b1 100644
--- a/doc/scanimage.man
+++ b/doc/scanimage.man
@@ -137,9 +137,9 @@ option works similar to
 but requires a format string.
 .B scanimage
 replaces the placeholders
-.B %d %v %m %t %i
-with the device name, vendor name, model name, scanner type and an index
-number respectively. The command
+.B %d %v %m %t %i %n
+with the device name, vendor name, model name, scanner type, an index
+number and newline respectively. The command
 .PP
 .RS
 .B scanimage -f
diff --git a/frontend/scanimage.c b/frontend/scanimage.c
index 449911dfa..7ac433168 100644
--- a/frontend/scanimage.c
+++ b/frontend/scanimage.c
@@ -1776,6 +1776,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 				int_arg = i;
 				ftype = 'i';
 				break;
+			      case 'n':
+				text_arg = "\n";
+				ftype = *percent = 's';
+				break;
 			      case '%':
 				ftype = 0;
 				break;