The invention discloses a device for separating paper. After the paper is rubbed out through a paper rubbing wheel, a paper pressing piece in a rotary paper pressing air cylinder set presses exposed lower-layer paper, a suction cup frame moves to the preset position to suck the paper, in the paper sucking process, the suction cup frame adjusts the height and the width in the width direction of two rows of suction cups, and the sucked paper forms a shape that the edge sucked by the suction cups is high, and the middle which is not sucked by the suction cups is sunken. Meanwhile, in the position change process of the suction cups, shaking suction cups on the suction cup frame continuously shake at high frequency in the vertical direction; an air knife group continuously blows air to the lower part of the edge of the paper, through the above manner, the air among the paper is increased, and the lower-layer paper is prevented from being sucked and falls back into a paper pile; and in this way, when the suction cup frame sucks top-layer paper to move to the preset position, all components of the device are ready to start to separate the next paper. Through mutual cooperation of various components and manners, the paper is not prone to being tightly attached together after air enters the paper, and therefore stable, reliable, efficient and convenient paper separation is achieved.