diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 30829bc..74bde5b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ include = [
     "external/bcmaps/**",
     "docs/rust-api.md",
     "LICENSE",
+    # maturin derives the sdist file list from this allowlist; the stub must
+    # ship so wheels built from the sdist keep their type hints.
+    "pdf_inspector.pyi",
 ]
 
 [lib]
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3bac64f..dc46b13 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 name = "pdf-inspector"
 # Bump this to publish to PyPI — CI publishes automatically when the version
 # changes on main (same flow as napi/package.json for npm).
-version = "0.2.3"
+version = "0.2.4"
 description = "Fast PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction with smart scanned vs text-based detection"
 readme = "docs/python.md"
 license = { text = "MIT" }