I used version 1.6 of Tika and that worked fine for me. Here is the pom dependency I used.
http://tika.apache.org/download.html
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
<artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
<artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>