The exception is thrown as the conversion library was designed/built with Apache POI version 3.10-FINAL.
For those using Maven, here are the dependencies that I declared:
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
<version>3.10-FINAL</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/poi-ooxml -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
<version>3.10-FINAL</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.poi/ooxml-schemas/ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>ooxml-schemas</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/fr.opensagres.xdocreport/org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.core/ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>fr.opensagres.xdocreport</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.core</artifactId>
<version>1.0.6</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/fr.opensagres.xdocreport/org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.pdf/ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>fr.opensagres.xdocreport</groupId>
<artifactId>org.apache.poi.xwpf.converter.pdf</artifactId>
<version>1.0.6</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/fr.opensagres.xdocreport/fr.opensagres.xdocreport.itext.extension/ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>fr.opensagres.xdocreport</groupId>
<artifactId>fr.opensagres.xdocreport.itext.extension</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.lowagie/itext/ -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>