Preview: problems viewing icons in sidebar

I have some PDFs that I have OCRed. When I view them in Preview, in the sidebar, I don't get icons of the pages, but a garbled table of contents view instead. It looks like somewhere in the OCR process, a table of contents was created, but it is filled with gibberish. Is there a way to force Preview to show the icons of the pages?

on the sidebar at the bottom there is a drop down button allowing you to select "Thumbnails... ToC... and Annotations". That should do it for ya. It's the middle button.

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